Plato Quotes

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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• A woman should be an illusion.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Woman
  • Should
  • Illusion

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Wish
  • Ballet
  • Go

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • History
  • Bad
  • Organization

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Record

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

  

  A. S. Byatt

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Great
  • Power

• The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Responsibility

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• I am Providence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Difficult
  • Times
  • Election

• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Curiosity
  • Lives
  • Terror

• When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thoughts
  • Feel
  • Lives

• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Desire
  • Integrity
  • Lives

• Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

  

  Plato
  • Lives
  • Solitude
  • Roof