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
  • Time
  • Wife

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

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Know

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

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
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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
  • Work
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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
  • Success

• 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
  • May

• 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
  • God
  • Character

• 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
  • Joy

• 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
  • Kind
  • Smoke

• 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
  • Negative

• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Gratitude

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• There is a group within the SLFP who abuse that freedom and democracy. They go on instigating people and rousing racism. Many of those who held leading positions of the SLFP sometime back are supporting that campaign. Disciplinary action should be taken immediately against them.

  

  Arjuna Ranatunga
  • Racism
  • Leading
  • Positions

• Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

  

  Aristotle
  • Difference
  • Part
  • Presence

• The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Voice

• 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