Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
I only went into a gym by accident. My mum couldn't get a babysitter and wanted to do aerobics, so she took me and Kurtis, my younger brother, down to the gym. There was an after-school boxing class on with some of the kids from school. There weren't any other girls there, but I didn't mind. I loved it.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.
The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
