Plato Quotes

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Project
  • Budget
  • Box

• I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • You

• Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Money
  • Today
  • Economy

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Knowledge
  • Judge
  • Situation

• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Obscure
  • Heartless
  • Soulless

• We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Good
  • Fact
  • Englishmen

• I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Together

• We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Games
  • Conversing