Mind Quotes
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I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.
Shinzo Abe
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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
Gautama Buddha
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It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.
Britta Phillips
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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
Lucinda Franks
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
Seneca the Younger
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I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Seneca the Younger
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon
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You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.
Miley Cyrus
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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
William Gibson
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
Meg Rosoff
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
Julia Roberts
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Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.
Nawang Khechog
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.
William Butler Yeats
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.
David Bowie
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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
Amanda Hocking
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
John Milton
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
Wole Soyinka
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If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
Dalai Lama