Democritus Quotes

δοκεῖ δὲ αὐτῶι τάδε· ἀρχὰς εἶναι τῶν ὅλων ἀτόμους καὶ κενόν, τὰ δ'ἀλλα πάντα νενομίσθαι δοξάζεσθαι. (Diogenes Laërtius, Democritus, Vol. IX, 44)

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• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Security
  • Policy

• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Community
  • Never
  • Lucky

• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Kind
  • Travel

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Friend
  • Red
  • Wine

• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Mother
  • Christmas
  • Brothers

• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Everything
  • Impossible

• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Exist
  • Debate

• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Girl
  • Faster
  • East Coast

• Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Powerful
  • Color
  • Red

• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Feeling

• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Motivated

• 'Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Party

• Truth is a golden thread, seen here and thereIn small bright specks upon the visible sideOf our strange being’s party-coloured web.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Truth
  • Small
  • Party

• The world still hasn't seen the best of Sean Paul.

  

  Sean Paul
  • World

• God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.

  

  J. Edwin Orr
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

• The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Faith
  • Sin
  • Salvation

• When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

  

  Paul Oakenfold
  • Work
  • Best
  • Studio

• It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Different

• δοκεῖ δὲ αὐτῶι τάδε· ἀρχὰς εἶναι τῶν ὅλων ἀτόμους καὶ κενόν, τὰ δ'ἀλλα πάντα νενομίσθαι δοξάζεσθαι. (Diogenes Laërtius, Democritus, Vol. IX, 44)

  

  Democritus