Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Seacrest

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

Joko Widodo

I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.

Ann Robinson

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

Justin Gatlin

I don't mind a target on my back,

Hunter S. Thompson

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Honore de Balzac

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Honore de Balzac

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Honore de Balzac

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

He boggles the mind with what he's able to do at that size.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Francis Quarles

My mind's my kingdom.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hugh Howey

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

Horace

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Horace Mann

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Horace Mann

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Horace Mann

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Homer

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Homer

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

Homer

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

Homer

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Homer

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

If I can't do it myself, then I'm not going to do it. When I'm retired, I want them to at least be able to say, 'There's no question in our minds that he did it the right way.' I have kids. I don't want them to think their dad's a cheater.