Diogenes Quotes

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

Diogenes

• Thought
• Mindless
• Quoting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Simple
  • Missing

• We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • Know

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Dance
  • Find
  • Look

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • You
  • Looking
  • Used

• There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Better

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Good
  • History
  • Guilt

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.

  

  Charles Landry
  • Cities
  • Benefits
  • Attractive

• One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

  

  Diogenes
  • Thought
  • Mindless
  • Quoting