Plato Quotes

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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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
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• 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
  • She
  • Hamburger
  • Snack

• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Law
  • Persist

• If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
  • Suffering
  • Really

• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Story

• If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Man
  • Memory

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Impossible

• Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Courage
  • Enlightenment

• 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
  • Power
  • Problem
  • Belief

• There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Childhood
  • Choice
  • Advantage

• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Up
  • Food
  • Sex

• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • Kill

• Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Disease
  • Kill
  • Guns

• The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

  

  Plato
  • Kill
  • Abide
  • Drones