Plato Quotes

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • American
  • Death
  • Success

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Good
  • History
  • Hope

• We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Know

• If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Death
  • Honored
  • Pig

• Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Networks

• I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • Book
  • Death

• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  

  David Pajo
  • Love
  • Death
  • Atheist

• I am an open-minded person, so I would happily collaborate with other artists who share the same passion for music, regardless of the genre. I do consider that great things could also come from unexpected collaborations between people who have different cultural and musical backgrounds.

  

  Alexia Trif
  • Different
  • Genre
  • Collaborations

• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Mind
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

  

  Plato
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  • Good Man