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

• One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Win

• 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

• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Experience
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• 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's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Race
  • Solar

• 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'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Black

• I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Office
  • Groups
  • Employers

• Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Happy
  • Proud

• Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Today

• 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
  • Happy
  • Persons
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