Doxai Quotes & Sayings

Atticus's rule was that while he would never lend a book, any of his friends were free whenever they liked to come up and read or even make their own copies. And it was here, beneath a head of Aristotle, that we found Atticus reclining that afternoon, dressed in the loose white tunic of a Greek, and reading, if I remember rightly, a volume of Kyriai doxai, the principal doctrines of Epicurus. He came straight to the point. I was at dinner last — Robert Harris

No authentic conservative metaphysic can be operable when the discipline of God and the discipline of the soul have been ceded to the doxai, the dialectical structures and superstructures of modern life. — George A. Panichas

Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships. — Ronn Elmore

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

You've said life is a series of choices, but I think it's also a series of opportunities, a series of lessons, a series of moments all strung together that loops around into a lifetime - it's a lifetime of moments. Every decision, every person that has entered my life, has shaped who I am today. — Sheena Hutchinson

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. — James McNeill Whistler

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens. — Mike Quade

You will get your difficulties with the point electron. — Paul Ehrenfest

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. — Peter Kreeft

The land that the community park is built on, I recently learned, is designated to be used as burial sites so the graveyard can expand as we die; one day our graves will swallow up our playground. — Jesmyn Ward

Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. — George R R Martin

Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise color and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter". — Annette J. Dunlea

People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work. — Sunday Adelaja

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing. — Trent Zelazny