Mind Quotes
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I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.
Usain Bolt
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
Zeno of Citium
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Alex Van Halen
Van Halen
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
William Shakespeare
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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates
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I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
Charlize Theron
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I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed 'the squirrel brain' are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
Kate DiCamillo
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
William James
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I am really not clear in my mind what a sanctuary city is.
Patty Judge
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
John Lancaster Spalding
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To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
Alec Douglas-Home
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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
Dalai Lama
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I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
Jane Siberry
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People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
William Hazlitt
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That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-
Harper Lee
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.
Brian Celio
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.
W. G. Sebald
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
Orson Scott Card
