Xenophanes Quotes

ἀλλ᾽οἱ βροτοὶ δοκέουσι γεννᾶσθαι θεοὺς,τὴν σφετέρην δ᾽ἐσθῆτα ἔχειν φωνήν τε δέμας τε.

Xenophanes

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• To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Single
  • Kind
  • Prejudice

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Anxiety
  • Very

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Emotion
  • Run

• I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Recluse

• I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Trying
  • House
  • Speak

• 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  

  Obafemi Awolowo
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Hate

• The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Medicine
  • Patient
  • Doctors

• Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Words

• One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Women

• ἀλλ᾽οἱ βροτοὶ δοκέουσι γεννᾶσθαι θεοὺς,τὴν σφετέρην δ᾽ἐσθῆτα ἔχειν φωνήν τε δέμας τε.

  

  Xenophanes