Demosthenes Quotes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• Bullying is a national epidemic.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Bullying
  • National
  • Epidemic

• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Know
  • Him
  • Portrait

• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Sad

• The audience has always been my best director.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Best
  • Audience
  • Director

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Good
  • Love
  • Deep

• I wouldn't have been interested in making a show just about Hollywood, 'cause I find Hollywood boring. I find people and families very interesting.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  

  Harry Browne
  • American
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Think
  • Car
  • Couple

• If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modelling

• I'm the queen of the independent video!

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Independent
  • Queen
  • Video

• The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • World

• 'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Hand

• Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. 'What!' he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, 'looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,'-'You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?'

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Light
  • Eyes

• A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Guy

• I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Devil

• String theory seems to be incompatible with a world in which a cosmological constant has a positive sign, which is what the observations indicate.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • World
  • Positive

• I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Death

• As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of 'Sports Illustrated.'

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Sports
  • Color
  • Model

• During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • School
  • High
  • Focus

• They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Eyes

• Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Joy
  • Made
  • Responsible

• The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

  

  Demosthenes