#mind

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#care #fiercely #i #independent #mind

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told. ↗

— Frank Miller

#books #call #come #comic #comic book

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ↗

— Henry Miller

#chop #even #give #him #his

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#cannot #child #developed #formed #him

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

#idleness #mind #stupidity

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves. ↗

— Kate Millett

#could #did #far #had #horrifying

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

#aspiring #beyond #content #contraction #going

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#feminist #her #interestingly #mind #mother

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#children #inflicted #mind #society #today

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#certain #corresponding #exceedingly #habituation #identical