Aristotle Quotes

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Very

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Police
  • Missing

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Beautiful
  • Kid
  • Consciousness

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Media

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Songwriter

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She
  • Hope
  • Night

• I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Style

• The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Wish

• I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Girl

• One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • Nature
  • Violence
  • Model

• In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Assume