Diogenes Quotes

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

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• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Path
  • Broken

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Path
  • Model

• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • True
  • Path

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Up
  • Think
  • Path

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Beautiful
  • Road
  • Path

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Real
  • Parents

• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Path
  • Most

• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wonder
  • Existence
  • Opens

• I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Kids
  • College
  • Church

• I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Path

• Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • Respect
  • City

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • Future
  • Energy

• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Men
  • Existence
  • Mysterious

• You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Enemy

• Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the many lost hours. So while you still have time, seek to enrich your own spirits for the tomorrow which awaits you because, in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, it is of no use to retain the outward appearance of the splendor of all the empires of this world, if you maintain darkness within your heart.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • World
  • Heart
  • Remember

• The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Warrior
  • Active

• Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

  

  Diogenes
  • Path
  • Existence
  • Backward