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.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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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.
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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.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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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.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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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.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
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I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
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For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.
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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.
