Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Thomas Aquinas

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
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  • Child

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
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• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
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• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
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• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
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• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
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• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
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• I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • Same
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• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
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• Work is what saves you.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • You
  • Saves

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Always
  • Garden
  • Toilet

• I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Tailor

• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Future
  • Light
  • Present

• I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.

  

  Cassie
  • Feel
  • Integrity
  • Pushed

• Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Believe
  • Artist
  • Secret

• I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Real
  • Done
  • Business

• But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Passion

• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Passion
  • Disposition
  • Temperance