Aristotle Quotes

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Day

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Chinese

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Men
  • Inevitable

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Lost
  • Effort

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Mother
  • Christmas
  • Brothers

• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Personality
  • Cute
  • Hugging

• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  

  William E. Burrows
  • Believe
  • Psychology
  • Disaster

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Water
  • Moral
  • Argument

• The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Summer
  • Lifetime