Aristotle Quotes

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Red
  • Apple

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Way
  • More
  • Will

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Laundry

• Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rest
  • Body
  • End

• I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Son
  • Successful
  • Million

• If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Artist
  • Fight
  • Choice

• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Close

• Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Today
  • Old

• The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • World
  • Mind
  • Silence

• What we are discussing is what we have to do, the very clear undertakings given by the European Council at a summit last December and again this June, to lead to an opening of negotiations on October 3rd. I will say that I am reasonably hopeful that this deadline can be met.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Discussion
  • December
  • June

• There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Lose

• I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Book
  • Opinion
  • Saws

• When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Two
  • Going Away

• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Community
  • Passion

• Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Serious
  • Honest

• Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

  

  Quint Studer
  • Waiting
  • Keys
  • Peers

• Ryan and I worked as hard as we could every day. All we wanted to do was to show that we belonged up here, that we wanted to stay up here and that we never have to play another game down there.

  

  Corey Perry
  • Game
  • Hard
  • Show

• In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • World
  • Dignity
  • Absence

• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Dignity
  • Honors
  • Deserving