Diogenes Quotes

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."

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• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Dark

• People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Band
  • Realize

• If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Running
  • Play
  • Hockey

• One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Pretty
  • Reading
  • Cool

• I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Comedy
  • Couple
  • Down

• Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Moments

• I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • People

• All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.

  

  Adam West

• Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Great
  • Children

• The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Environment
  • Cleaning

• I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

  

  Brian Kernighan

• I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • World
  • Society

• I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Taken

• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Issie asks, "Why iron?" Devyn goes into full geek mode and answers before I can, "Iron is one of the last elements that is created by stellar nucleosynthesis." I have no idea what he just said. Neither does anone else.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Elements
  • Iron
  • Issie

• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Women
  • Dignity
  • Vanity

• Antipsychotic drugs were a major factor in reducing the number of people living in mental hospitals in the United States, from over 500,000 in 1955 to fewer than 100,000 in 1996.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • United States
  • Drugs
  • Hospitals

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Song

• The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Suffer
  • Conviction
  • Cries

• He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."

  

  Diogenes
  • Dogs
  • Marketplace
  • Cries