Democritus Quotes

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Democritus

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• What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Up
  • World
  • Hope

• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • May
  • Today
  • Leader

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Love
  • Think

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Never
  • Lonely

• So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Girl

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Stop
  • Very
  • Become

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rocky

• I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Up
  • Care
  • Enough

• My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Worst

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.

  

  Dana Boente
  • People
  • Real
  • Serious

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Why
  • Alone

• Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• Travel is a passion. I intend seeing the world.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • World
  • Passion
  • Travel

• I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • She
  • Grandmother

• That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

  

  Kenneth Arrow
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

  

  Deneen Borelli
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Successes

• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

  

  Democritus