Plato Quotes

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Music
  • Never
  • Thought

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Fool

• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Right
  • Theater
  • Musical

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Knowledge
  • Things
  • Two

• I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • True
  • Moment
  • Be True

• I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Amazing
  • Kid
  • Come

• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • Trying
  • American

• Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.

  

  Camille Claudel

• This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up
  • Truth

• Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem... Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Good
  • Drug

• We continue to believe that the attorney client privilege should protect conversations between government officials and government attorneys. The American people benefit from decisions made by government officials, including the President, on the basis of full and frank information and discussion.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • War
  • Law
  • Failure

• I'm a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Space
  • Sunshine
  • Italy

• You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

  

  Jose Altuve

• Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

  

  Plato