The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.
Now is the place where the Miracles of life occur. If your mind is occupied with worry, anger or fear, they most surely will go unnoticed.
Physical Love brings heightened awareness of the body. Oneness with our Creator brings heightened awareness of the mind and Spirit.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
When we allow the worries of tomorrow to permeate our minds, we give them the power to obfuscate the joy of today.
Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'
I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies
Ben Says: Make up your mind & do away with your fears or your fears will do away with you!
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
