Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Edward Gibbon

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Edward Gibbon

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

Edith Piaf

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Edith Wharton

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Dawn Powell

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Daymond John

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

David Icke

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

David Hume

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Duchovny

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Beatrice Wood

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Arnold Bennett

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Antonin Artaud

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Stephen Colbert

You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.

William Shakespeare

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

William Shakespeare

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Philipp Meyer

When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.

Kurt Vonnegut

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Madeleine Albright

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

William Shakespeare

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

William Shakespeare

Would the cook were o' my mind!

Nelson Peltz

I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

Camille Paglia

Mind is a captive of the body.

Caleb Carr

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense