Demosthenes Quotes

ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει

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• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Connection
  • Readers
  • Rookie

• At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • First
  • Loser
  • Silver

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
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• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
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• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Cancer
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• I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

  

  Warren G
  • School
  • Kids
  • Care

• It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Why
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• I like to play with tropes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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  • Like

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Fear
  • Always

• When you are present, the world is truly alive.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Present
  • Alive

• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
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• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • World
  • Different
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• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
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• Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. ... The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Remember
  • '80s
  • '60s

• Maybe by color, maybe by number, maybe something else.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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  • Number
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• I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Financial
  • Changed
  • Collapse

• ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει

  

  Demosthenes