Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.
The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.
It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.
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.
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
