Mitchell Quotes

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly ... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly. ~ Stephen Mitchell

The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key. ~ Margaret Mitchell

like taking one bite into something I couldn't quite place. It was layered and complex, an unfamiliar taste I liked enough to crave more of instantly. Perhaps what lured me most was that it was never enough to feel sated. There was always a gentle nuance to him, something new I'd just begun to discover. ~ Andie Mitchell

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. ~ Joni Mitchell

I am speechless: what can I answer?
I put hand on my mouth.
I have said too much already;
now I will speak no more. ~ Stephen Mitchell

If I wanted to kill myself, I'd climb your ego and jump down to your IQ ~ Shelby Mitchell

I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes. ~ W. J. T. Mitchell

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country. ~ John N. Mitchell

I see bodies as individual things. ~ Joni Mitchell

Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that? ~ David Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ~ Richard Mitchell

It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people who have been in space start to see the world without boundaries. You start to think about how we can keep doing these things we're doing that are destructive of the environment and destructive of the planet. It causes you to start to think things in a quite different way than we had before. ~ Edgar Mitchell

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed. ~ Shay Mitchell

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head, ~ David Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny. ~ Edgar Mitchell

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does! ~ Shay Mitchell

Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator... ~ David Mitchell

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education. ~ Richard Mitchell

It's the bully who is insecure. ~ Shay Mitchell

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world that know of alien visits - including the British government. ~ Edgar Mitchell

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky ~ Elyne Mitchell

Living a life of faith is not superficial. You are not simply living in some hurt from the past, trying to be the top dog, or even tying to fulfill a parent inadequacy. No, you are on a unique journey, living each day anew, with freedom to be yourself, with special guidance from above, there is a set purpose to what your doing, and some goal in mind. ~ Phil Mitchell

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path. ~ Mitchell Reiss

Letting it go feels so sodding liberating. ~ David Mitchell

Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight. ~ Margaret Mitchell

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters. ~ Andrew Mitchell

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. ~ David Mitchell

She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are pretendin' can bend bein'. A whoah game it was, said Catkin, but I din't want to know its rules nor endin'.david ~ David Mitchell

This is my grandson, Hudson Mitchell, the famous rockstar you like to listen to on the radio.
Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. ~ Jasmin Miller

...so profound an insight into God that for a century and a half he was branded a dangerous atheist... ~ Stephen Mitchell

You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning. ~ Mitchell Joachim

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. ~ Joni Mitchell

He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men ... ~ David Mitchell

Friendships between races, Ewing, can never surpass the affection between a loyal gun-dog & its master. ~ David Mitchell

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. ~ David Mitchell

A small footnote found in the court records of some parallel world. The name of Mitchell Chaplin, who served his sentence of invisibility and learned his lesson well. Too well. This time, however, he will wear his invisibility like a shield of glory. A shield forged in the very heart ... of the Twilight Zone. ~ Rod Serling

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more. ~ Austin Mitchell

Staring at Joey's eyes blinking up from his pale face was a bit like inhaling a pound of rock candy while watching puppies play. ~ K.A. Mitchell

Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today. ~ David Mitchell

We mistakenly measure strength by comparing battle scars, when the truly strong among us are those who know the battle is never really over. ~ Esther Mitchell

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other. ~ W. J. T. Mitchell

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go, ~ Joni Mitchell

You're a heartless creature but that's part of your charm. Though you've got more charm than the law allows. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Tommy Gnosis: What is that?
Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with. ~ John Cameron Mitchell

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. ~ Joni Mitchell

I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon. ~ Eliza Doolittle

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. ~ Margaret Mitchell

When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end. ~ David Mitchell

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything. ~ Siri Mitchell

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. ~ Joni Mitchell

Odd how the wrong stories pop into one's head at my age. ~ David Mitchell

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself - and keep it there. ~ Margaret Mitchell

If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can ~ Joni Mitchell

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. ~ Roscoe Mitchell

I was the epitome of rags to riches. ~ Jason Mitchell

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization. ~ George J. Mitchell

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary. ~ Joni Mitchell

What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven. ~ Phil Mitchell

Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left. ~ W. Mitchell

It was like The Wizard of Oz, instant beautiful color, only Quinn had been living in worse than black-and-white Kansas. He'd been trapped in a monochromatic world of beige, of nice, of going with the flow, not making waves. Eli was the whole super-sized box of crayons, with no rules about staying in the lines. ~ K.A. Mitchell

Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.'
'"Gay"? A merry activity?'
This was hopeless. 'Writing poems is . . . what creeps and poofters do.'
'So are you one of these „creeps"?
'No.'
'Then you are a „pooof-ter", whatever one is?'
'No!'
'Then your logic is eluding me. ~ David Mitchell

After the nuclear war, kids like them'll rule what's left. It'll be hell. ~ David Mitchell

I believe that I am male and I am female. ~ Joni Mitchell

Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail. ~ Margaret Mitchell

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities. ~ Silas Weir Mitchell

Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica to be published one day
as a votive offering to human knowledge
but a seat at Uppsala, or Leiden, or Cambridge, holds no allure. My heart is the East's in this lifetime. This is my third year in Nagasaki, and I have work enough for another three, or six. During the court embassy I can see landscapes no European botanist ever saw. My seminarians are keen young men
with one young woman
and visiting scholars bring me specimens from all over the empire. ~ David Mitchell

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them. ~ David Mitchell

Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question. ~ Mitchell Heisman

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing. ~ Joni Mitchell

Spend every moment in "Hope" and "Love" for God for he has risen and brought us courage. ~ Phil Mitchell

The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake. ~ David Mitchell

An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way. ~ David Mitchell

They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary. ~ Stephen Mitchell

I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in and out of office. I think all would note his devotion to Maine; that was number one. The fact he did work in a bipartisan basis with Bill Cohen. And for me, he helped the first Democratic woman get elected. ~ Barbara Mikulski

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever. ~ Pat Mitchell

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history. ~ George J. Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction ~ David Mitchell

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and fiction are based upon woman's love, and the movements of history are mainly due to the sentiments or ambitions she has inspired......there is no aspiration which any man here to-night entertains, no achievement he seeks to accomplish, no great and honorable ambition he desires to gratify, which is not directly related to either or both a mother or a wife. From the hearth-stone around which linger the recollections of our mother, from the fireside where our wife awaits us, come all the purity, all the hope, and all the courage with which we fight the battle of life. The man who is not thus inspired, who labors not so much to secure the applause of the world as the solid and more precious approval of his home, accomplishes little of good for others or of honor for himself. I close with the hope that each of us may always have near us:

'A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command,
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. ~ Chauncey Mitchell DePew

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model. ~ Mitchell Reiss

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous. ~ Joni Mitchell

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. ~ Maria Mitchell

Geothermal energy should be a priority in a ever increasing warmer planet. It is kind of like cooking a chicken from the outside. Eventually, the underlying parts get well done. ~ Phil Mitchell

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name. ~ Keith Coogan

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one. ~ David Mitchell

So what are you doing here?" Dylan asked in between forkfuls of eggs.
That was the first thing Dylan had said that bothered Joey. He didn't want Aaron thinking too much about it, either. Going for the kill, Joey said, "I suck your brother's cock and take it up my ass. Any more questions?"
"Gross. Fuck no. Jesus." Dylan grabbed his plate and went into the living room.
"If you spill anything clean it up," Aaron yelled after him. ~ K.A. Mitchell

…every King must have a fool or risk becoming the fool himself. ~ W.H. Mitchell

Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small? ~ David Mitchell

Now, I'd got diresome hole-spew that day 'cos I'd ate a gammy dog leg in Honokaa, ~ David Mitchell

who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book ~ Chris Claremont

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints ... ~ Joni Mitchell

Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws? ~ David Mitchell

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed. ~ David Mitchell

How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices. The Chinese didn't want our clothes, tools, or salted herring, and who can blame them? They had no demand. Our solution was to make a demand, by getting large sections of the populace addicted to opium, a drug which the Chinese government had outlawed. When the Chinese understandably objected to this arrangement, we kicked the fuck out of them, set up a puppet government in Peking that hung signs on parks saying NO DOGS OR CHINESE, and occupied this corner of their country as an import base. Fucking godawful behavior, when you think about it. And we accuse them of xenophobia. It would be like the Colombians invading Washington in the early twenty-first century and forcing the White House to legalize heroin. And saying, Don't worry, we'll show ourselves out, and take Florida while we're at it, okay? Thanks very much. ~ David Mitchell

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down
and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power. ~ Henry Mitchell

I wish I had a river I could skate away on? ~ Joni Mitchell