The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
~By Edith Wharton ~
I wouldn't mind being a lord.
~By Peter O'Toole ~
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
~By Oscar Levant ~
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
~By Henry Vaughan ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.
~By Donald Cram ~
It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
~By Marc Maron ~
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
~By Jean Kerr ~
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
~By Guru Nanak ~
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.
~By Jim Bolger ~
I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
~By William Hazlitt ~
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
~By Gene Fowler ~
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
~By Richard Ford ~
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
~By Antony Jay ~
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
~By Barry Zito ~
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
~By Gene Fowler ~
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
~By Yoko Ono ~
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
~By Edward Weston ~
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
~By Tina Yothers ~
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
~By Saint Bernard ~
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
~By Joseph Lewis ~
I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.
~By Josh Holloway ~
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
~By Pythagoras ~
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
~By Aeschylus ~
Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
~By Paul Gleason ~
The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
A lot of the Warp stuff has infected people's minds 'cause they're at the point where they can put tracks out, 'cause electronics are cheaper in America and kids are richer generally.
~By Sean Booth ~
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
~By Thucydides ~
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
~By Rider Strong ~
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
~By Jared Diamond ~
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
~By Melanie Klein ~
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
~By Dana Plato ~
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~By Leon Edel ~
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
~By Brad Henry ~
It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
~By Eric Clapton ~
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
~By John Sladek ~
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
~By George Arliss ~
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
~By Bodhidharma ~
A mind too active is no mind at all.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
~By George Stigler ~
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
~By Raquel Welch ~
Small things amuse small minds.
~By Doris Lessing ~
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
~By William Morris ~
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
~By Henry Fielding ~
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
~By Lance Ito ~
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~By Douglas Adams ~
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
~By Nikki Sixx ~
I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
~By Robert Quillen ~
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
~By John Burns ~
The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
~By Jackie Joyner-Kersee ~
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
~By Nick Rahall ~
I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
~By Roman Polanski ~
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
~By Frances Burney ~
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
~By Max Nordau ~
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
~By Walter Scott ~
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.
~By Erika Christensen ~
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
~By Andy Roddick ~
This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
~By Jim Walsh ~
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
~By John Mayer ~
Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.
~By George Fox ~
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
~By Joe Rogan ~
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
~By Melvin Maddocks ~
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
~By Liam Neeson ~
Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.
~By Joshua Homme ~
Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
~By Donald Judd ~
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
~By William Penn ~
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
~By Vince Cable ~
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