Virtue Moir Quotes & Sayings

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney

Everyone is wrong about the future. — Milan Kundera

But a further question arises: Is passion different from reason also, or only a kind of reason; in which latter case, instead of three principles in the soul, there will only be two, the rational and the concupiscent; or rather, as the State was composed of three classes, traders, auxiliaries, counsellors, so may there not be in the individual soul a third element which is passion or spirit, and when not corrupted by bad education is the natural auxiliary of reason? Yes, he said, there must be a third. Yes, I replied, if passion, which has already been shown to be different from desire, turn out also to be different from reason. But that is easily proved: - We may observe even in young children that they are full of spirit almost as soon as they are born, whereas some of them never seem to attain to the use of reason, and most of them late enough. Excellent, — Plato

I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back. — Ani DiFranco

'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And ... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone. — Philip Baker Hall

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go ... When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them. — J.C. Lillis

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener. — Alan Chadwick

Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other. — Mark Lawrence

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. — Jay McShann

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. — Seneca The Younger

Our body is an ecosystem. This ecosystem must be maintained ... — Ilchi Lee

We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space. — Dinah Lenney

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. — Jeanette Winterson

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable. — Jonathan Weiner