Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fanny Burney

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

Fanny Burney

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

Fannie Hurst

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

F. L. Lucas

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

Ezra Taft Benson

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Ezra Taft Benson

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

Euripides

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

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.

Jennifer Coolidge

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

Jeff Sessions

As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

Jean de La Fontaine

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Jhene Aiko

You have got to lose your mind just to find your peace of mind

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Gretel Ehrlich

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Graham Greene

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

Giovanni Boccaccio

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Gisele Bundchen

No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

Gil Scott-Heron

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Gil Scott-Heron

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

Gregory Maguire

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

Gregory Maguire

A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

Hugh Prather

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

Hugh Grant

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Howard Nemerov

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Howard Gardner

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds