Captive Mind Quotes

#1. I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

Julia Child

#2. If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie

Czeslaw Milosz

#3. Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Mark Batterson

#4. I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

Richard O'Barry

#5. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

Irvine Welsh

#6. Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,
Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

John Dryden

#7. Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Stephen Fry

#8. For beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

John Milton

#9. Mind is a captive of the body.

Camille Paglia

#10. I don't have sleeves to carry handkerchiefs in,' said Damen. 'I wouldn't mind being given a knife.' 'Or a fork?' said Laurent.

C.S. Pacat

#11. Leader leads people. Leader does not follow public opinion

Imran Khan

#12. You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

Stephin Merritt

#13. True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

Adyashanti

#14. We ought to walk in the bright light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song. I was going to hell.

Goldy Moldavsky

#16. Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

John Milton

#17. Thank you," I said and then abruptly leaned across the counter and with two forked fingers poked him sharply in the eyes. Actually, I didn't do that. I just imagined it. But imagining it made me feel better. I

Bill Bryson

#18. Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods.

Czeslaw Milosz

#19. It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.

Russell Okung

#20. ...time is not a willing captive. The days pass too soon, slipping through my fingers like sand. I grab for a moment, only to find it is no longer there. I take a photo with my mind, only to find it is already fading.

Maria Goodin

#21. Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine?

Jeanette Winterson

#22. I didn't have long to wait before she joined me naked and mind-bendingly sexy as usual; rendering me utterly captive and raging to claim her body with the dominating sex I couldn't seem to control when we were together. My ultimate reward and my greatest fear all rolled into one.

Raine Miller

#23. Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

Rick Warren

#24. There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

Gao Xingjian

#25. A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Simone Weil

#26. When laced into his clothing, Laurent's dangerous grace lent him an almost androgynous quality. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that it was rare to associate Laurent with a physical body at all: you were always dealing with a mind.

C.S. Pacat

#27. At any given moment,
someone,
somewhere,
is blowing a kiss.
And somewhere, someone is catching it.

Amy Gibson

#28. Laurent, just turned twenty, and possessing an elaborate mind with a gift for planning, detached it from the petty intrigues of the court and set it loose on the broader canvas of this, his first command.

C.S. Pacat

#29. In her mind she was free; only her body was captive.

Nina Gagen-Torn

#30. Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

Mooji

#31. We can't say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.

Taylor Jenkins Reid