Democritus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
-
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
-
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
-
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
-
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
-
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
-
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
-
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
-
It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
-
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
-
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
-
Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
-
Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.
-
Those who have a well-ordered character lead also a well-ordered life.
