Plato Quotes

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Exercise

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Film
  • More
  • Often

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • May
  • Future

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Know
  • Doing

• Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • Doubt
  • Media

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Problem

• I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Why
  • Need
  • Hollywood

• The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Heaven

• When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Girl
  • Sit
  • Longer

• We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People

• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Selfish

• I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

  

  Chris Paul
  • Time
  • Money

• I'm a natural sceptic.

  

  David Hockney

• If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Present

• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Nature
  • Religions
  • Confess

• Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

  

  Plato