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Minds Quotes (page 92)

Molly Ivins quote: "I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching..."
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. Molly Ivins
I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. Jim Valvano
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn... Fyodor Dostoevsky
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do? John Maynard Keynes
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made Henry David Thoreau
William Ellery Channing quote: "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with..."
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... William Ellery Channing
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it. Friedrich Nietzsche
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. Isaac Asimov
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and... Charlotte Bronte
J. K. Rowling quote: "Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where..."
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. J. K. Rowling
There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession... J. K. Rowling
John Dewey quote: "Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until..."
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. John Dewey
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be..."
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor Frances Hodgson Burnett
James M. Cain quote: "You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is..."
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. James Allen

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