Diogenes Quotes

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Man
  • Me

• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Perfect

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Blues

• I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Book
  • Wine
  • Grapes

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Guy

• I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. 'Hey, what's up? I got $200 and dreams. Let's do this.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Fight

• If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Happy
  • Company
  • Partner

• Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Moment
  • For Her

• 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

  

  Manny Farber
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sleep

• I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Why
  • Best

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Movie
  • You

• A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Health
  • Diet

• 'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015

  

  C. K. Williams
  • May

• Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Hearts

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

  

  Ailyn Perez

• The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Important
  • Nature

• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

  

  Diogenes