Pythagoras Quotes

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Girl
  • Door

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Medical

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Religion

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

  

  Nas
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Rap

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Effort
  • Plants

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Death

• For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • First
  • Open

• The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

  

  George Lloyd

• The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Men
  • Children
  • May

• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  

  Cyril of Alexandria
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Soul

• None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Free
  • Slave
  • Passions