Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Edgar Allan Poe
George Bernard Shaw
Joan Rivers
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Inge
Maya Angelou
All authors
Today's birthdays
1941 - George Will
1929 - Audrey Hepburn
1827 - John Hanning Speke
1975 - Kimora Lee Simmons
1968 - Julian Barratt
1998 - Rex Orange County
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Designer
Businessman
Aviator
Author
Businesswoman
Inventor
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Mind Quotes
Mind Quotes
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
George Saintsbury
Debate
Care
Mind
Will
Our
Proper
Rather
Division
Deluge
Wiser
Come
Beyond
Pass
Quarters
Subject
Debatable
Itself
Very
Close
Romance
Which
Much
Origin
Hardly
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Friendship
People
Mind
Part
Almost
Another
Spots
Always
Friends
Union
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Witness
Reward
Mind
Instrument
Operation
Body
Function
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana
Mind
Ancient
City
Sedentary
Like
Renaissance
Pilgrim
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
George Saunders
You
Eyes
Mind
Become
Machine
Would
Constantly
Arises
Another
Does
Discontent
Close
Move
Refuse
Place
Prefer
Asking
Your
Satisfy
Watch
Desire
A princely mind will undo a private family.
George Savile
Family
Mind
Will
Private
Undo
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing
Mind
Whatever
Think
Bass
Harmony
Easier
Wilson
Obeying
Laws
Come
Without
Said
Line
Any
While
Little
Much
Your
Little While
Play
Teddy
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
George Soros
Democracy
You
People
Mind
Will
States
Solution
Through
Institutions
Democratic
Because
Subject
Governments
Which
Create
International
International Institutions
Actually
I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
George Strait
Day
Morning
You
Mind
Resting
Somewhere
Gone
All Day
Stay
See
Rarely
Touring
Check
Sound
Go
Get
Different
Anything
While
Then
Much
Show
Traveling
Early
There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
George Thorogood
Mind
Doubt
No Doubt
Always
Been
Who
Number
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush
Work
You
Change
People
Cause
Mind
Will
Drop
Believe
Tell
Hat
Criticize
Terrorists
American
Going
Just
American People
Persuasion
Successor
Therapy
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will
Work
Freedom
World
Space
Mind
Lost
Sense
Live
Innocence
State
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Back
Melancholy
Minimal
Out
Something
Vast
Could
Suppose
Very
American
Which
Work Out
Jefferson
Tone
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille
Life
Truth
Mind
Judgment
Everyone
Once
Ease
About
Only
Except
No-One
Hear
Meaning
Shouting
Speaks
Moment
Who
Thing
Last
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
Gerald Clarke
People
Writing
Mind
Crime
Some People
Think
Approach
Killer
Some
Never
Had
He
Journalistic
Look
Make
Smith
Because
Been
Did
Upset
Loved
Capote
Deep
Connection
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.
Gerald Edelman
Good
You
Problem
Mind
Our
Complex
Computer
Computers
Massive
Course
Because
Opinion
Trumpet
Very
Model
Orchestra
Really
Need
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
Gerald Finzi
Work
Mind
First
Second-Rate
Rate
No Work
First-Rate
Really
Ever
Second
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald R. Ford
Soul
Women
School
Mind
Church
Men
Men And Women
Has-Been
Moral
Hospital
Ideas
Safe
Been
Millions
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Gerard De Nerval
Life
Soul
Reflection
Mind
Thought
Consolation
Dream
Religious
Seek
Between
Return
Should
Disorder
Cool
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Great
Man
Heart
Confession
Mind
Own
Living
Other
Pleasant
My Own
More
He
Knew
Like
Always
Very
Scoundrel
Than
Walt
Any
Whitman
I like to stay busy. I have a lot of things on my mind.
Gerard Pique
Mind
Busy
Stay
Like
Lot
Things
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
Gero Miesenbock
You
Mind
Fly
Understanding
Find
Physical
See
About
Rise
Give
Know
How
Exhilarating
Psychological
Notions
Evaporate
Even
Vague
My father never once told me he loved me. I told him I loved him only one time - that was when he was sick. It was hard, the way he showed his love. I didn't understand what he was trying to teach me. Now I know, but it came too late for him to see it. After he was gone, I realized he was trying to strengthen my mind to make me better.
Gerry Cooney
Love
Time
Me
Too Late
Better
Father
Mind
Gone
Sick
Too
Late
Once
Way
One Time
See
Only
Never
He
Know
Make
Him
Understand
Came
His
Trying
After
Loved
Realized
Teach
Hard
Now
Strengthen
All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.
Gerry Harvey
Health
You
Conversation
Mind
Active
Enough
Say
Eat
Someone
Having
Stuff
Look
Exercise
Around
After
Might
Your
Keep
Right
I was going into a slump during 'Ironman.' I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn't all the way there.
Ghostface Killah
Time
Mind
Way
Out
Slump
Around
Diabetic
Going
Just
Found
Stressed
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova
Memory
Human Being
Mind
Made
Analogy
Examine
Only
Existence
Precede
Human
Being
Order
Cannot
Formed
Therefore
Comparisons
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
World
Mind
Made
Men
Superior
Doubt
Diverse
Proposed
Had
True
Particular
Without
Always
Times
Contrary
Quite
Often
Nations
Ends
Themselves
Load more quotes
No more mind quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Because
Always
Am