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

• We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • High

• We are very pleased with our accelerated time to market as evidenced by delivering the market's first workforce optimization solution, and the ability to meet our customers' requirements and changing needs even more effectively. Key to this was our relationship with FCG India, many of whose employees will soon join Witness Systems' global R&D organization. The initial impact they've had on the business has been significant, and we look forward to many more achievements and successes driven out of this arm of our R&D operation.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Relationship
  • Market
  • Solution

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

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

  

  Demosthenes