Plato Quotes

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Audience
  • Said

• I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Today
  • Look
  • Too Much

• He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Prejudices

• My confidence can come back very quickly.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Confidence
  • Very
  • Back

• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

  

  Edward Young
  • Friend

• Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Art
  • Nature

• Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • Attitude
  • Ignorance

• From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Childhood
  • Shadow

• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Mexican

• When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Book
  • Career
  • Author

• What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Different

• For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?

  

  Javier Camara
  • Real
  • Why
  • American

• I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Up
  • Perfect

• I am not a fan of Obamacare. But I was bound and determined to try to comply with the law. I've done everything in my power to try to do that.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Done
  • Power
  • Law

• I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Planning

• Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? Do not tell, but I never did. Hannah Whitall Smith, Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? Do not tell, but I never did.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Question
  • Sarah
  • Bank book balance

• It doesn't matter what he says tomorrow. If there's a better plan, great - that's a better plan. Odds are that will require taxpayer dollars.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Great
  • Plan
  • Dollars

• The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

  

  Andrew Miller
  • Door
  • Back
  • Closes

• When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • People
  • Myself
  • Doing

• No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

  

  Plato