Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Froggatt

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Jo Coudert

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Jimmy Carter

We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

John Cage

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

Mahatma Gandhi

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Mahatma Gandhi

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

James Payn

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

James Patterson

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

James McAvoy

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

James Mackintosh

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mark Baldwin

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

James Martineau

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

James Madison

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Norman Vincent Peale

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Emile M. Cioran

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Emile M. Cioran

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emile M. Cioran

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Emile M. Cioran

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.

Ellen Glasgow

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Ellen G. White

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Eric Schmidt

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Epictetus

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Epicurus

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Epictetus

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Epictetus

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.