Diogenes Quotes

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

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• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Team

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Sympathy

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
  • War
  • Help
  • Free

• I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Morning

• The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Own

• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Idiots

• Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Running

• I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • American
  • Simple

• Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Today
  • See
  • Kings

• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • Being
  • Well

• It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Why
  • Together

• When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Writing
  • Perspective

• Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Law

• Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Beautiful
  • Husband
  • Model

• The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

  

  Diogenes