Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Joseph Addison

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Laurie R. King

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Lance Armstrong

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

Laini Taylor

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Lisa See

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Lisa Loeb

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Kleypas

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

John Turner

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

John Travolta

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Stuart Mill

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

John Stuart Mill

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Lee Burke

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

James Joseph Sylvester

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

James Joyce

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Russell Lowell

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

James Redfield

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

James Grant

Credit is money of the mind.

Laurence Sterne

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Lamar Odom

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

Libba Bray

Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.