Celia Rees Quotes

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Celia Rees

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• Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Want

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Mind
  • Business

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Age

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Mind
  • Remember

• 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Movie

• It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Mind
  • Die
  • Rest

• It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mind
  • Will
  • System

• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Effective

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• 12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Why is everything so confusing? Maybe I'm just out of my mind. Won't you, take me by the hand? Take me somewhere new. I don't know who you are, but I? I'm with you, I'm with you.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Hand

• Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Mind
  • Business

• I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Mind
  • Challenge

• I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Mind

• I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Car

• Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • Mind

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Attention

• You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

  

  Jim Bakker

• Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

  

  Ricky Van Veen
  • Funny
  • Identity
  • Videos

• Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

  

  Celia Rees
  • Mind
  • Lying