Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Horace

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

Horace

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Horace

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Horace

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

Horace

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Horace

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

Horace

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Horace

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

Guy Finley

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

George Best

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

George Berkeley

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

George Bernard Shaw

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Gena Showalter

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Gary McCord

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

Frederick Wiseman

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Freeman Dyson

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

P. J. O'Rourke

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

Mike Love

The songs are complicated enough to keep your mind engaged,

Nick Rimando

The thing that's on my mind now is the (United-Galaxy) game. It grounds us a little bit.

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked (in the negotiations).

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

Suze Orman

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

Sidney Crosby

It would be nice to win it, but it's not on my mind a lot.

Susan Collins

These raise some very serious questions in my mind about the repairs.

The big thing on everybody's mind is oil prices.

A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.

Joshua Young

At times, you don't think you are going to be able to do it. But if you do what you are supposed to do and keep your mind on focus, you'll get a whole lot out of it.

Jason Isringhausen

That's just mind over matter, ... You have to go out there and realize what you're getting ready for. We've had this talk, me and Tony. Every time I go out there, I have to think I'm getting ready to pitch in the playoffs.