Plato Quotes

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Pressure
  • Expectations
  • Own

• I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Myself

• I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Shows
  • Record

• Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• Businessmen and corporate men watch 'Hee Haw.' With that kind of audience, how can they take it off?

  

  James Kenneth Price
  • Men

• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Together
  • Single

• I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Alone

• There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Moral

• Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Wise