#minds

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blindly #book #evidence #fanatics #follow

When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking. ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#chihuahua #freezing #i #i see #me

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath. ↗

— Ben Folds

#breath #come #comes #equilibrium #get

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#hours #i #like #me #minds

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#cooperation #effective #factors #mindsets #past

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human

When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. ↗

— Ted Turner

#candidates #cnn #come #decision #doers

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#approves #brave #business #conduct #conscience

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#changed #characters #choices #control #fates