Top 1200 Feeble Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.

When you get in some people minds, they won't think how they normally would.

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members. Such a sentiment, which had rendered the legions of the republic almost invincible, could make but a very feeble impression on the mercenary servants of a despotic prince; and it became necessary to supply that defect by other motives, of a different, but not less forcible nature; honour and religion.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me.

My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

Music is in all our minds and hearts and we are all free to sing anywhere we choose.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

In Italy, we have some of the best minds in the world, and we have let them all go abroad.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.