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

• 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

• 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

• Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Engine

• You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Back
  • China

• The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

  

  Bob Burg
  • People
  • Serve
  • Income

• So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Real
  • Song

• It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People

• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

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

  

  Aristophanes