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
Quotes to Explore
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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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I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
Victoria Wood -
I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.
Adam Carolla -
One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Agatha Christie -
I'm the type of person who commits to the fullest to whatever I'm doing.
G-Dragon -
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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