Plato Quotes
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
Karl Pilkington
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
Eddie Redmayne
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She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.
Rachel Caine
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If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.
Laisenia Qarase
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
Barry Hannah
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Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!
Ilya Ehrenburg
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In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.
Rumi
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Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain circuits and secrete massive amounts of stress hormones. This precipitates unpleasant emotions intense physical sensations, and impulsive and aggressive actions. These posttraumatic reactions feel incomprehensible and overwhelming. Feeling out of control, survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.
Bessel van der Kolk
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To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
Norman O. Brown
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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Plato
