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

• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Character
  • Doubt
  • Understood

• That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Attitude
  • Movies
  • Cheap

• Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

  

  Aristotle
  • Difficult
  • Virtue
  • Fortune

• A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Style
  • Clear
  • Dignity

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Dignity
  • Honors
  • Deserving