Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henrik Ibsen

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Hesiod

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Henry Ford

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Henry Ford

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Helen Oyeyemi

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Hilary Duff

I feel like women's minds never stop.

Henry Winkler

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Henry Fielding

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Khaled Hosseini

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

Khaled Hosseini

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Khalil Gibran

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Jonathan Swift

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Jonathan Nolan

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

Napoleon Hill

Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve