Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laini Taylor

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Lisa See

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Lisa Loeb

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Kleypas

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

John Turner

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

John Travolta

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Stuart Mill

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

John Stuart Mill

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Lee Burke

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

James Joseph Sylvester

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

James Joyce

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Marc Jacobs

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

Marc Guggenheim

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

Thomas a Kempis

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Shia LaBeouf

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

Sharon Salzberg

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Sharon Salzberg

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

Neil Peart

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

Natalie Merchant

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

Natalie Goldberg

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Natalie Goldberg

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

Taylor Swift

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

Swami Vivekananda

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Swami Vivekananda

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.