"I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas."

-- Kevin Brooks

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Floating Quotes

“I thought I heard---" Gansey broke off. His eyes dropped to where Adam held Blue's hand. Again his face was somewhat puzzled by the fact of their hand-holding. Adam's grip tightened, although she didn't think he meant for it to.”
“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
“There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.”
“One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.”
“We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.”

Source : Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd
“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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