Aristotle Quotes

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Aristotle

• Heart
• Ability
• Souls
• Organism
• Nourish

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
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• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
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• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
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• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

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• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

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  • Life
  • Love
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• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
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• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
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• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
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• I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

  

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• She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ('Cue the tears!'). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.

  

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• Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

  

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• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  

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• I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'

  

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• The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

  

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  • Christian
  • Christianity

• Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heart
  • Spirit
  • Pleasure

• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

  

  Aristotle
  • Heart
  • Ability
  • Souls