Aristotle Quotes

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Aristotle

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• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I've met every freak in the business.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Business
  • Freak
  • Met

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Lives
  • Very
  • Uninteresting

• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Life
  • Country
  • Regret

• I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Age
  • Change
  • Die

• Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.

  

  Julia Gillard
  • Education
  • Benefits
  • Investments

• I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • American
  • Me
  • Told

• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Strongest

• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Brain
  • Mistake

• The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Coin
  • Favour