Aristotle Quotes

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Exist

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Balance
  • Friendship
  • Without

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• I always write the pieces I want to write.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Want
  • Always
  • Write

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Experience

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Driving

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Everyday

• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Own

• I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Artist

• In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • God
  • Turns
  • Void

• I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.

  

  Erin Davie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

  

  Aristotle
  • Laws
  • Written
  • Unaltered