Plato Quotes

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Me
  • Judging

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Free
  • Yourself

• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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  • Where
  • Through

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Author
  • Generation
  • Youth

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Health
  • Things

• As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • You
  • Author

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Country
  • Winning
  • Fans

• I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Live
  • Desire
  • See

• I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Times
  • Changing
  • Shots

• God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

  

  Plato
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