Short Aristotle Quotes

#1. As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Robert Plant

#2. As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. They were the same height and weight, and could wear each other's clothes. But Lev had charm by the ton. He was unreliable and selfish, and he lived on the edge of the law, but women adored him. Grigori was honest and dependable, a hard worker and a serious thinker, and he was single. It would

Ken Follett

#4. We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

Aristotle.

#5. I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

Jack Kemp

#6. And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

Gregory Maguire

#7. Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Aristotle.

#8. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle.

#9. Be relentless and then you'll break through.

Julie Brown

#10. There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean.

Aristotle.

#11. The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

Jonathan Haidt

#12. Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A lot of prayer doesn't hurt either.

Shannon Hitchcock

#13. I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Jeffrey Kluger

#14. To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Michael Sandel

#15. Dreams don't die until we let them.

James Ojala

#16. If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

Elizabeth Taylor

#17. It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Aristotle.

#18. The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.

Aristotle.

#19. Every scar told a story, but it was the ones we didn't want others to see that told a truth.

Keri Lake

#20. Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.

Justin Cronin

#21. The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Aristotle.

#22. Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

Sergio Martinez