Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg MacGillivray

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Grace Paley

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

J. Reuben Clark

But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

George Herbert

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

Georg Cantor

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Jerry Bridges

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

Jerry Bridges

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Ken Hamlin

If I have an answer, I'll give it. I don't mind being that kind of guy.

Chone Figgins

I can play all of those positions. It is not about my skills. It is preparing my mind to be able to play.

I can relate to the patients a little differently because I was on the other side for the first 20 years, ... So, I don't mind taking time.

Jeff Burton

I don't see any one person that everyone migrates to in this sport anymore. When you have an opportunity to pick the mind of a seven-time champion, that's a special thing.

I don't mind when they burp and spit around me, ... It tells me they think of me as their teammate.

I don't mind. We have lot of things to work on.

Sami Salo

I don't mind these rule changes. It's been pretty good.

I don't mind talking right now. It'll probably keep us here longer, but that's OK.

I don't mind road trips. I need at least 50 at-bats to start the season so my timing is right.

David Jones

I don't mind paying my taxes, I just wish it were on something worthwhile.

Cate Blanchett

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.

I don't mind it. I can score, but I like setting my teammates up.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't mind how much my ministers talk - as long as they do what I say.

Ryan Seacrest

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

Joko Widodo

I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.

Ann Robinson

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

Justin Gatlin

I don't mind a target on my back,