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You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

- Robert Patrick

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

- Ayn Rand

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

- Simone Weil

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

- Peter Hook

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

- Omar Sharif

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

- Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

- Vaclav Havel

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

- Albert Einstein

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

- Luigi Pirandello

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

- Malcolm De Chazal

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

- Thor Heyerdahl

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

- Samuel Alexander

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

- Simon Greenleaf

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

- Michel de Montaigne

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

- Gerald Clarke

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

- Megan Fox

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

- Goldwin Smith

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

- Max Eastman

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

- Joseph Butler

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

- Mick Mars

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

- Richard E. Grant

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

- David Bowie

If you never change your mind, why have one?

- Edward de Bono

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

- W. Clement Stone

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

- Dennis Rodman

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

- Rob Walton

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

- Michelangelo