Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1624.

• I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

  William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

  Curtis Carlson
  American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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• I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.

  Dudley Nichols
   
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• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr
  American author (1973 - )
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• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

  John Cheever
  American writer (1912 - 1982)
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• I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

  Astrid Lindgren
  Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
  

  Margaret Thatcher
  British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
  

  Marilyn Monroe
  American actress (1926 - 1962)
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• I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

  Marlon Brando
  American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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• I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

  Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

  Sir Edward Appleton
  English physicist (1892 - 1965)
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• I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

  Adam Sandler
  American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

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  Jeanette Winterson
  English writer (1959 - )
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• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

  Pearl S. Buck
  American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• mind-altering
• resignation
• destination
• possibility
• protestant
• inaccuracy

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