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Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Quote by William Falconer about life

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about mentality, things, people

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Quote by Michael Caine about mentality, work

The positive aspect of the movie is that no matter where you come from, you can break out of it if your mentality and drive is right.

Quote by Eminem about mentality, rightness

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about mind, mentality, hope, time

Joy is the mental reflex of the pure existence-of an existence capable only but itself.

Quote by Emil Cioran about joy, existence

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits, common sense, people

At that point, I just thought I would die in prison. It was - I was devastated mentally.

Quote by Jim Bakker about thinking

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about perfection, time, people

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Quote by Michael Chabon

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about existence, problems, mind, work

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quote by Quincy Jones about mother, old, olderness, things

Computer sadism: When the computer causes physical or mental damage to a person and can't receive such a return favor due to management rules.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, rules, people

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Quote by Camille Paglia about man

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Quote by Thomas Paine about happiness, infidelity, man

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem, it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about faith, essential, use

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, children

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about concentration, wine, vision, world

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is.

Quote by James Payn about judges, food, good, good luck

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about concentration, power