Plato Quotes

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
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• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  

  Lance Loud
  • World
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Secret

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Hope
  • Education

• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • You
  • Door

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Think

• The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Spirit
  • Eagle

• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • War
  • Society
  • Fighting

• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

  

  Gary Panter
  • Trying
  • Relax
  • Might

• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Never
  • Memory
  • Renew

• We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Way

• In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • State
  • Indecent

• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

  

  Plato
  • State
  • Mathematics
  • Suitable