Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1624.

  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Amy Hempel For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
    Rick Moody (2007) 202
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Carol Berg For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Virginia Woolf For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ayn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Denis Waitley Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Louis Pasteur Fortune favors the prepared mind.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Terry Waite Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
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  • George Santayana Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Nikola Tesla From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Hanif Kureishi Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind.
    The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic (2009) 308
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Games lubricate the body and the mind.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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