The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is my strength. And it's something that came from probably being a silent observer for most of my life and having to read what was going on in people's minds from only their postures or from their expressions.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.
I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.
there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
When you're in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.
Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world.
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
My melons are twisted every bleeding morning at about half past five when I'm up with the little ones!
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
I might look like somebody who lives next door but I've a dark, twisted sense of humour.
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
I was born two months premature with jaundice, twisted legs and a hole in my heart.
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.
A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.
I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
What I really found myself interested in was the idea that our minds our so powerful and when we're living, the mind is dampened by the body. As crazy as our minds can get, they're only so crazy because they're physically housed.
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