Plato Quotes

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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• I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Rock
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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
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• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Love
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• A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Story

• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
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• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
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• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
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• A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Important
  • Balance

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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  • Three

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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  • Thought
  • Precedes

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
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• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Kind
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  • Loser

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Law
  • Space

• You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Trying
  • Future

• Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Place

• The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Spirit
  • Sin
  • Communicates

• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Labor
  • Background
  • My Father

• In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • Incarnation

• The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

  

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