Aristotle Quotes

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Hate

• I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Reason

• I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Relationship

• The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

  

  Idries Shah
  • Service
  • Path
  • Human

• It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Like

• Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Stop
  • Wanted
  • Pink

• She was poison in a pretty bottle.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Pretty
  • Battle
  • Poison

• It is already apparent that the current system is proving unwieldy and liable to present MPs with a potentially unsuitable leader while the changes under discussion will severely restrict democracy within the party - clearly an undesirable move for a modern twenty-first century party.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Party
  • Present
  • Democracy

• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Taught

• I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay.

  

  Lisa See
  • Broken
  • Married
  • Clay

• Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Money
  • Science
  • Psychiatry

• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Philosophy

• A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Movement
  • Means
  • Dress

• If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

  

  Jenny Holzer
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Desires

• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Human being
  • Bliss
  • Falls

• Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Means
  • Desires
  • Increase