Plato Quotes

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Jack

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Never
  • Celebration
  • Pure

• Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Value
  • Listening
  • Doing

• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  

  John Madden
  • Teacher

• You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Heaven
  • Exist
  • Grieve

• Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock

• We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation
  • Proposals

• I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Words
  • Like
  • Celebrity

• We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Guilty

• To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Privilege
  • Suffered

• Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Player
  • Basketball
  • Chicago

• Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Seems
  • Except

• I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • People
  • Poet
  • Musical

• To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.

  

  William Jay Smith
  • Life
  • Poet

• Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Control
  • Better
  • Competition

• People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

  

  Kristoffer Rygg Borknagar
  • People
  • Community
  • Style

• At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

  

  Plato
  • Poet
  • Touch Of love