Plato Quotes
There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
-
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
-
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
-
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
-
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
-
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
-
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
-
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
-
I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
-
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
-
This Islam business kidnapped me.
-
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
-
I love the hip-hop nation.
-
I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
-
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
-
Football is about dreams, about feeling a special sensation, giving a surprise, and inspiring joy.
-
I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
-
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
-
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
-
There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
