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I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing other things that are creative.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.
While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.
The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.
We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.
I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.
When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
Bitcoin was created with security in mind. The Blockchain is Bitcoin's public ledger that records every transaction in the Bitcoin economy.
the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.