“If he had a mind, there was something on it.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

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P.G. Wodehouse302

English author 1881–1975

Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar

Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), pp. 24, 26

“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.”

David Stove (1927–1994) Australian philosopher

The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 99, first paragraph.

“He had come out of the war twice-decorated and with a thoughtful respect for the horrors of combat. He had seen terrible things, participated in terrible things…but that was the nature of war, and it was not something you could enter into halfway. War was a state of mind, war was all or nothing.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 15 (p. 134)

“He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.”

David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand

Referring to an unsuitable applicant for a high-ranking government position.
Source: A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.

“Now he had form and substance.
He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965)
Context: Now he had form and substance.
He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles — middle-class circles — it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.