Aristotle Quotes
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
