Aristippus Quotes

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

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• It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Change
  • Me

• 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 is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Special

• 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

• 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

• To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Care

• 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 future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The only sin is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity

• 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

• Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • City
  • Stills
  • London

• 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

• Cancer is always funny.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Cancer

• It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Human
  • Goals
  • Explorer

• For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Want

• When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • War
  • Genocide
  • Convenience

• The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

  

  Aristippus
  • Slave
  • Possess
  • Pleasures