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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle

Tags: nature, moral, habit, product

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Tags: nature, passion, chance, human

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

Tags: nature, listening, effort, trees

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

Tags: nature, cold, freezing, snow, weather, winter

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

Tags: music, poetry, painting, mediocrity

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

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

Tags: music, practice, sound, virtue

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Tags: music, war, intelligence, brain, mistake

Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

Tags: music, love, search, word

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Tags: music

Film lovers are sick people.

Francois Truffaut

Film lovers are sick people.

Francois Truffaut

Tags: movies

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

Tags: movies, music, meaning, emotion

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Pat Summitt

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Pat Summitt

Tags: morning

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags: morning, life, man, body, evening

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tags: money, day, american, endure

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or...

Ally Condie

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or...

Ally Condie

Tags: mom

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Elizabeth Olsen

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Elizabeth Olsen

Tags: mom, business, ballet, actress

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that...

Ashley Greene

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that...

Ashley Greene

Tags: mom

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Arianna Huffington

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Arianna Huffington

Tags: mom, guilt, think, working

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

Tags: men

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Hillary Clinton

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Hillary Clinton

Tags: men, time, women
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