When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I'd think, 'Hang on'. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject.
Howard Jacobson
PeopleMindSayingThinkThought
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
TravelMindConversationOftenToo
I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.
Portia Doubleday
MindMoreAlwaysLiteralThanHad
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?
Alan Moore
FunnyFunMindThinkPhilosophyYou
Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.
Ryan Coogler
ArtMindMeKindWaySame
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
CharacterSoulMindThoughtsWill
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran
HeartMindLookPersonUnderstand
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush
WorkChangeHatPeopleMindBelieve
I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.
Chan Ho Park
DecisionMindMeTeamFindingEnjoy
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides
BeautifulSimpleMindLossWithout
I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.
Savion Glover
MusicDancePeopleMindMission
The honesty of my material and my being vulnerable was from Richard Pryor. He doesn't mind talking about his life, which is why I think he was one of the dopest to ever do it.
Lil Rel Howery
LifeHonestyMindThinkTalkingWhy
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
NatureMindPersonSheOverCoat
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Elizabeth Moon
MotherMindEnoughNowOwnHer
We were in the market ahead of competition. We brought new products on the market ahead of competition. We rolled out our networks. We begged, borrowed, stole, put things out. And while they were never near perfect, they were first. And that gave us, to my mind, a lot of advantage.
Sunil Mittal
CompetitionMindPerfectNewAhead
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
Alana Stewart
MarriageAloneTimeDayMindEnd
I love that feeling you get once you leave a cinema having just watched a movie during the day. Your eyes slowly adjust to the natural light, and your mind, being a little slower, takes its time to separate the images of film from the reality you are suddenly facing.
Rhys Darby
LoveEyesTimeLightDayMind
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
EducationFoodMindBodyNecessary
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.
Junot Diaz
MemoryMindIdeasThinkDownWrite
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
George Lois
MindDeepNervousMuseumsSystem
I don't mind having 16-year-old fans, but I hate just having 16-year-old fans. I want more diversity.
Bo Burnham
HateDiversityMindWantMoreFans
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
MomentDecisionMindOfficeHigh
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
MindWillAnythingWhoBellyHe
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
Les Dawson
MindLongSayWorstReactionGet
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