Plato Quotes

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.

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• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Direction

• I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

  

  Halsey
  • Direction
  • Fan
  • Horizon

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Same

• I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Exist
  • Bee
  • Longer

• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Record
  • Exist
  • Get

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Pretty
  • Think
  • Best

• If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Direction

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Different
  • You
  • Name

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • More
  • German

• A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • True
  • Exist
  • Astonishment

• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Dance
  • Fate

• O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

  

  Callimachus
  • World
  • Darkness
  • Resurrection

• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Air
  • Sweet
  • Sound

• Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.

  

  Plato
  • Direction
  • Exist
  • Conversion