Diogenes Quotes

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

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• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
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• If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
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• There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
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• I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Always
  • Easy

• 'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'

  

  Anthony Burgess

• I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Happy
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• I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

  

  Pink
  • Art
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• Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

  

  George Packer
  • Long
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• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
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• Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Experience
  • Nature
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• I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

  

  Doris Day
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
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• Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Book
  • Kids
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• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Persons
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• The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

  

  Confucius
  • Faith
  • Consider
  • Treasures

• Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Jesus
  • Treasures
  • Store up

• The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.

  

  Eva Ibbotson
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  • Leading

• The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • True
  • Soul

• Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

  

  Diogenes
  • Leading
  • Treasures
  • Temple