Thomas Aquinas Quotes

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

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• I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • School
  • Wish

• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Model
  • Building

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Video

• Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Important
  • School

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Friendships

• One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

  

  Bruno Bauer
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Religious

• I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Wise

• Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Important
  • Age
  • Success

• The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Universe
  • Luck
  • Bird

• Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Words
  • Spanish

• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Violence
  • Organization

• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Law
  • Violence

• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Man
  • Child
  • Achieves

• The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

  

  Confucius
  • Master
  • Prejudice
  • Egoism

• He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Violence
  • Master
  • Achieves