Diogenes Quotes

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Long
  • Live
  • Anything Is Possible

• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Religious

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Film
  • Role

• Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Water
  • Air

• Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Space
  • Creativity
  • Social Media

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Earth

• I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Live
  • Day

• As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Job

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Myself
  • Difficult
  • Fame

• I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Balance

• Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Choices

• The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Political

• Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

  

  Diogenes
  • Good
  • King