Nonmind Quotes & Sayings

Can I have this?" Iris asked in her honeydew voice, holding up one of the novels I'd brought her so that Amy could see the cover.
"Sorry, hot man is all out at the moment. We have some corpulent taxi driver and a slice of crazy cat-lady left, but we ran out of hot man hours ago. — Nicole Peeler

Whatever God has created us to do is the best way to spend the rest of your life. — John Berry

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world. — Billy Collins

[I]t is tempting to look to biology to find or ratify boundaries such as "when life begins." But that only highlights the clash between two incommensurable ways of conceiving life and mind. The intuitive and morally useful concept of an immaterial spirit simply cannot be reconciled with the scientific concept of brain activity emerging gradually in ontogeny and phylogeny. No matter where we try to draw the line between life and nonlife, or between mind and nonmind, ambiguous cases pop up to challenge our moral intuitions. — Steven Pinker

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home. — Marisha Pessl

Take the humble road, and listen before you speak. Ask before you suggest, and think before you act. — Pierre Quinn

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. — Lisa Bonet

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted. — Cassandra Clare

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things. — Joseph Hansen

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. — Thomas Mann