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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend.
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.
Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.
I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.
Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.
I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
When dealing with the internet, I knew that people would have their own opinions, and I went into it with that in mind.