Richard Simmons Quotes

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

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• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Afraid
  • Entertainers

• If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Blind

• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • America
  • Death

• I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Time
  • Music
  • Experience

• We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Value
  • Virtue

• [Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Production
  • Existent

• Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

  

  Socrates
  • Happy
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Energy
  • inspirational
  • Proportion

• In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

  

  William James
  • Lying
  • Order
  • Term

• Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Surprise
  • Sages

• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Forgive
  • Devoid

• Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Way
  • Rules
  • Consider

• That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Feel
  • Generosity
  • Consider

• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Important
  • Consider
  • Weather

• I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Consider
  • Jester
  • Motivator