Alexander Barclay Quotes

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

Alexander Barclay

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• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Fall

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Hanged

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Travel

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • End

• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Man

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Great
  • School

• I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Quality

• Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Violence

• The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Cold

• And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

  

  Alexander Barclay
  • Mind
  • Study
  • Inclined