Heraclitus Quotes

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Flaws

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Present

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • People
  • History
  • Worst

• I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Action

• Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Music
  • Character
  • Idea

• Nothing is that which fills no space. If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again; whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Single
  • Space

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • War
  • Peace
  • Suffering

• My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Chinese
  • Appreciation
  • Details

• The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Character
  • Think
  • Choice