Plato Quotes

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Business
  • Lot
  • Accomplished

• Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Up
  • Win
  • Vote

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • School
  • Education
  • Quality

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Up
  • Children
  • Trying

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Understand
  • Afraid