Democritus Quotes
Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
Quotes to Explore
-
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
-
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
-
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
-
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
-
We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
-
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
-
A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
-
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
-
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
-
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
-
But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
-
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
-
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
-
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
-
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
-
Life is one long jubilee.
-
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
-
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
-
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
-
What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
-
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
-
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
-
Your ally today could be your adversary tomorrow and your ally the next day. Work hard, be polite, be respectful, and don't take it personally.
-
Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
