Aristophanes Quotes

Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

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• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Start

• Desire creates its own object.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Desire
  • Own
  • Creates

• I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Politics
  • Interest
  • Kid

• It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Band
  • Problems

• I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Play
  • Try

• If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Political

• Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Decisions

• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Never Forget

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• My style kind of differs - sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don't ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Kind

• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Design
  • Special
  • Century

• There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • World
  • Good
  • Song

• I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

  

  William Golding
  • Names
  • Favourite
  • Odyssey

• By not standing up for themselves when it is appropriate, many survivors damage their self-esteem. They become angry and ashamed of themselves for putting up with inappropriate behavior. The more they put up with, the worse they feel. Soon, they begin to believe they don’t have a right to complain and convince themselves they are making a big thing out of nothing.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Behavior
  • Damage
  • Self-Esteem

• Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes