Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Ovid

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

Ovid

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

Paul McCartney

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Paul Valery

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Paul Valery

The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted. There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

Paul von Hindenburg

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Mary Morrissey

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

Mary Morrissey

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

Pindar

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

Pierre Bourdieu

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Pierre Charron

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Phillip Adams

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Rachel Caine

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Peter Medawar

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Pete Waterman

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Pete Waterman

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Quintus Ennius

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Quintilian

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

Quintilian

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

R. A. Salvatore

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Plutarch

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

Pico Iyer

The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its researches into mind, and we have a lot that we can share with Tibet.

Pope Benedict XVI

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,

Natsuki Takaya

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!

Joanna Baillie

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Jim Rohn

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.