Plato Quotes
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.Plato
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden -
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke -
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro -
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore -
If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
Viktor Orban
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
Dan Gilbert -
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
J. B. Smoove -
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
Kate Moss -
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Affluence means influence.
Jack London -
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
Daniel Craig -
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W. Somerset Maugham -
'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
Alfred Bester -
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Leo Tolstoy -
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Lydia Lunch
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The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.
Jennifer Lopez -
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.
Alcuin -
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos -
We should like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We should like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wishes to convert this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the grave problems of the world. We must prevent their doing so.
Che Guevara -
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Plato