Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

Euripides

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Francis of Assisi

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

Francis Chan

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

Francis Bacon

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Francis Bacon

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

Francis Bacon

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Francis Bacon

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Frances Perkins

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

Frances Wright

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Gary Coleman

I've done over 150 different things since "Different Strokes," but that role will always be prevalent in people's minds because I haven't done anything to overshadow it yet.

Hunter Parrish

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

Drake Bell

I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.

Mark Philippoussis

I'm just concentrating on that first match. That's the only thing I've got my mind on.

Erwin Schrodinger

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

Erwin Schrodinger

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

Erykah Badu

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

Erykah Badu

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Ernest Holmes

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

Erin O'Connor

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

Florence Nightingale

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

Florence Nightingale

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Flann O'Brien

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Fiona Apple

My mind goes to tragedy first.

Henry Miller

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Henry Miller

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.

Helen Keller

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.