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Minded Quotes (page 48)

Do you know, Watson, said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. Arthur Conan Doyle
Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of the ashes. The kid didn’t answer. The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he? I don’t believe he much had me in mind. Cormac McCarthy
All that I would like to be is human, having a sharein a civilized, articulate and well-adjustedcommunity where the mind is given its duebut the body is not distrusted Louis MacNeice
Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that divine darkness out of which the divine love had called up every colored creature one by one. He saw everything as dramatic, distinct from its setting, not all of a piece like a picture but in action like a play. A bird went by him like an arrow; something with a story and a purpose, though it was a purpose of life and not a purpose of death. A bush could stop him like a... Gilbert K. Chesterton
People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind. Henrik Ibsen
Homer quote: "Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead,..."
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. Homer
I thought I know you, but it was only me. The you that you truly areis not the you I see. My mind has formed your imagebut you have already travelled on. I want to see only youbut I see you through me Lao Tzu
I cannot actually see him, but there he is in my mind's eye, crouching or down on all fours, on a hillock, black clouds racing past over his head, and the hillock becomes a hill and the next minute it is the atrium of a church, an atrium as black as the clouds, charged with electricity like the clouds, and glistening with moisture or blood, and the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it... Roberto Bolano
Max Lucado quote: "Worry divides the mind."
Worry divides the mind. Max Lucado
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices. Bertrand Russell
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "You think you want to know something, and then once you do,..."
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. Sue Monk Kidd
Virgil quote: "Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for..."
Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for passing things; here, too,things mortal touch the mind. Virgil
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds..."
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other Henry David Thoreau
Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know. Richard Bach
When I watch the living meet, And the moving pageant file. Warm and breathing through the street. Where I lodge a little while, If the heats of hate and lust. In the house of flesh are strong, Let me mind the house of dust. Where my sojourn shall be long. In the nation that is not. Nothing stands that stood before; There revenges are forgot, And the hater hates no more; Lovers lying two and two. Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through. Never turns him to the bride. A. E. Housman

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