Mind Diverting Quotes & Sayings

I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn't just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I could unhesitatingly chop a rabbit's head off with an ax when a roomful of boys couldn't. Those things were all symptoms of the same sickness - a kind of madness inherited from my father. It was a dangerous pull in my gut drawing me toward the dark possibilities of science, toward the thin line between life and death, toward the animal impulses hidden behind a corset and a smile. — Megan Shepherd

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. — Nathan Meyer Rothschild

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — George Bernard Shaw

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater. — Jeremy Abbott

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy). — Lucy Powell

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson

When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work. — Michael Harris

Destiny is the point where your circumstances and your actions coincide. — Theodore Volgoff

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. — Charles R. Swindoll

What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be. — Rachel Cohn

It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off — David Blunkett

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. — Maynard James Keenan

We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer. — Gene Wolfe

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt

In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it. — Laurie Colwin

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander The Great