Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

Anthony de Mello

Problems exist only in the human mind.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Alvar Aalto

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

Alma Guillermoprieto

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Anne Sexton

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Anne Rice

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

Anne Rice

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Anne Rice

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Andrew Sullivan

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

Andre Norton

There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...

Andre Maurois

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Andre Maurois

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Ambrose Bierce

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Ambrose Bierce

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

Ambrose Bierce

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Abraham Verghese

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Abraham Lincoln

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Ally Carter

If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction.

Allen Klein

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Allan Bloom

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Alison Pill

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Alicia Sacramone

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Ann Landers

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Ann Landers

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Ann Landers

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

Andy Cohen

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.