Aristotle Quotes

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • God
  • Friends
  • Night

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.

  

  Tara Strong
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• It is a changing world with changing opportunities.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Opportunities

• I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Career
  • Team
  • Player

• People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Fit
  • Mold

• I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  

  Gary Lucas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Important
  • Relax

• I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Place

• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Most

• There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

  

  Anthony Marra

• I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Pretty

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Travel

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Why
  • Happy

• A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

  

  Aristotle
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  • State