Diogenes Quotes

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Man
  • Kill
  • Broke

• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Career
  • Adapt
  • VIP

• An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Intellectual

• The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Practice

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• The only sin is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Morning
  • Sex
  • Married

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Miracle

• If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Elements

• The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Unbearable

• My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Future
  • Past

• I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be a sitcom, multicamera, audience - that's definitely a dream. It's in the works, so... it's closer than everybody thinks it is.

  

  Brandy
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Play

• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Long
  • Wise
  • Revolution

• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display or deployment of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure or enjoyment. It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown or repudiate or deny the best of thmeselves.

  

  African Spir
  • Knowledge
  • Slave
  • Activity

• When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

  

  Diogenes
  • Slave
  • Proficient
  • Auctioneer