Plato Quotes
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.Plato
Quotes to Explore
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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
Aberjhani -
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose -
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
Sam Shepard -
What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
Ian Somerhalder -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch -
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Abraham Verghese
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
Victoria Abril -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
J. G. Ballard -
Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
Gavin Newsom -
People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
Dan Gilbert -
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
Hakeem Jeffries
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In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned β by people who don't know me β or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
Barack Obama -
: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
Larry Wall -
Philistine β a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
Leslie Stephen -
The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent itβs Outsiders.
Colin Wilson -
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer -
My work up to then had been very uneven, I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.
Christopher Lloyd
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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.
Virginia Woolf -
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
Alice Cooper -
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.
Heber J. Grant -
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Vint Cerf -
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato