Plato Quotes
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.Plato
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein -
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
Oscar Wilde -
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
Aaron Swartz -
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden -
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
Abu Bakr -
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr -
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
Karen Salmansohn -
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
Rachel Cusk -
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
Lara Logan
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
Victor LaValle -
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler -
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
Dalai Lama -
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. Pardo -
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas -
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
P. J. O'Rourke
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That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
Emanuel Swedenborg -
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius -
One of the greatest gifts we’ve been given out of this administrative nightmare is that marginalized communities are coming together and standing up for each other.
Sarah Kate Ellis -
There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.
Sadiq Khan -
Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
Ted Cruz -
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Plato