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Diogenes Quotes

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 412 BC - 323 BC

Topics

Music Practice Virtue Others Sound

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

Jimmy Piersall

Great Feel I Feel Triple Had Bypass

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

Joanna Lumley

Time Me Eating Fish Back Down

I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

Jennifer Garner

Looking Direction Think You Look

My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.

John Sandford

Me Weird Now Living Up Packing

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

Michael Kelly

Power You Something Gravitate Toward

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

Mo Rocca

Love Shopping Bad Down Know Star

A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Success Look Know Success Is Because

My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.

Dimitri Payet

Me Way Talk Understood Heard

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

Deborah Ellis

Home Future History Me World Better

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

Clive Sinclair

Father Anniversary Parents Wedding

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Brent Sexton

Grief Down Emotions Sometimes Over

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million or $40 million.

Brian Reitzell

Talking You Pictures Movies High