Quotes About Mindless

#1. Sat mindless and eternal on the kitchen floor, stony of head and solemn, playing with my fingers. Time streamed in full flood beside me on the kitchen floor; time roared raging beside me down its swollen banks; and when I woke I was so startled I fell in.

Annie Dillard

#2. The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

Thomas Sowell

#3. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#4. Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Bruce Barnbaum

#6. To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

Eunhyuk

#7. TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

Raymond Arroyo

#8. History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

Michelle Malkin

#9. The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.

John Owen

#10. The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.

Donna Tartt

#11. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Gary Lineker

#13. Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

Paul Davies

#14. Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Marianne Williamson

#15. After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind.

Fritz Leiber

#16. The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ...

Isoroku Yamamoto

#17. KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

Mike Wilson

#18. To Buckley, she embodied the worst of what in subsequent decades would be called political correctness: the mindless application to every issue of a platitudinous egalitarianism whose practical effect invariably is to expand the reach of totalitarianism.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#19. That's the funny thing about running. The deceptive thing about it. It may seem mindless, but its really mental. If the minds strong, the body acts weak, even if its not.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#20. We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?

Chelsea Handler

#21. A human being is not mindless or mentally deficient without language, but he is severely restricted in the range of his thoughts, confined, in effect, to an immediate, small world.

Oliver Sacks

#22. The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.

Paul Cornell

#23. Avoid the mindless chaos that pervades vast swathes of society.

Steven Redhead

#24. One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

Diogenes Laertius

#25. Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#26. In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Edgar H Schein

#27. How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us?

Ted Nugent

#28. Worse, the perpetuation of this "pseudo-mathematics," this emphasis on the accurate yet mindless manipulation of symbols, creates its own culture and its own set of values. Those

Paul Lockhart

#29. World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.

Tom Savini

#30. I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

#31. Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

Bruce A. Demarest

#32. A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes

Munia Khan

#33. Ne has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..

Anton Chekhov

#34. I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its mindless hate. I quailed to think of the power that had called it into being and loosed it on the world.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#35. She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

Robin Hobb

#36. People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.

Linda Evangelista

#37. What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

Tom Coburn

#38. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Jay McInerney

#39. What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don't really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?

Kai Greene

#40. With a bored pride; in their own hands a shallow mindless electronic device - it is without doubt - a damning indictment of modern society.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#41. It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.

Steve Krug

#42. Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

Tom Robbins

#43. Why does everything have to be so damn hard on me? Women everywhere can drop their panties and have mindless sex, but no, not me! I have to get emotionally invested in a douchenozzle who is only willing to knock me up for his own pleasure!

Katie Ashley

#44. Mindless violence against the undead?" said Zzzap. "Count me in.

Peter Clines

#45. There is something divine in mindless beauty.

Albert Camus

#46. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water

A woman's shriek assaults the ear

While above, in the sky, inured to everything,

The moon looks on with a mindless leer

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok

#47. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#48. I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

Wallace Shawn

#49. I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

Ian McEwan

#50. Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Ross David Burke

#51. Anyone watching me might have thought I was consulting a reference book, I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite shoes ... For it was my best self I wanted ...

Ian McEwan

#52. Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

David Archuleta

#53. You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

#54. Without the real enjoyment afforded by hospitality, mindless entertainment fills the vacuum, substituting fantasy for reality. The sophisticated replaces the simple, and the exotic and the expensive become the desirable sources of pleasure.

Mitchell Kalpakgian

#55. Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians ... or just mindless butchers?

Dimitri Zaik

#56. It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

Takuan Soho

#57. I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

Chevy Stevens

#58. There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Ray Bradbury

#59. Mindless activity can't experience joy.

Jonah Books

#60. Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#61. I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

Rebecca Romijn

#62. All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.

Arthur C. Clarke

#63. I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

Habeeb Akande

#64. It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

#65. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

Tom Robbins

#66. Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ... even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way ... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

Goldie Hawn

#67. We came from over here,
to over there

Then told we wonder
mindless to degree
most seldom furls
in slumber, burns
begins a century.

Jim Morrison

#68. I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.

Dan Simmons

#69. I want her, in a way I haven't felt before, not just some kind of mindless physical drive but a real, specific desire. Not for someone, just for her.

Veronica Roth

#70. People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

Vikas Swarup

#71. At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

Gary Weiss

#72. Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

Kelly Creagh

#73. Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

Paul Auster

#74. Since homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a "worldview" that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, "faith" in its own mindless mission.

Timothy Snyder

#75. Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

Christopher Bram

#76. By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

#77. It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.

Anne Rice

#78. Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Iyanla Vanzant

#79. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Assata Shakur

#80. The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

Merlin Mann

#81. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

F. W. De Klerk

#82. Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels

#83. We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#84. He is now ready for a real relationship - the connection of two souls with a purpose other than mindless fucking and relationship games.

Alessandra Torre

#85. Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#86. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

James Fallows

#87. For a moment, he was relaxed and mindless, drifting peacefully, and then his identity returned to him lazily, like an unwanted afterthought.

George R R Martin

#88. We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

Jose Rodriguez

#89. Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Brandon Mull

#90. If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.

Samuel L. Blumenfeld

#91. If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

Starhawk

#92. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

Michael A. Ledeen

#93. Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

Eminem

#94. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Matthew McConaughey

#95. Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.

Valerie Solanas

#96. My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

Tom Robbins

#97. Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Chuck Palahniuk

#98. The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

Peter T. King

#99. Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.

Ikkyu

#100. You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less ... the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Maya Banks