Plato Quotes

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Faith

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Children
  • Way
  • Brother

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

  

  William Dobell
  • People
  • Photograph
  • Cases

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

  

  Keith Waterhouse
  • Angry

• Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

  

  Plato
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