Socrates Quotes

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Socrates

• Death
• Difficult
• Runs
• Wickedness

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• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Difficult
  • Industry
  • Combination

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Long
  • You
  • Difficult

• When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Death
  • Nothing
  • More

• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • You
  • Party
  • Taken

• Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

  

  Paracelsus
  • She
  • Help
  • Nature

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Man
  • Idea

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Anticipate

• In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Death
  • Church
  • Anniversary

• I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

  

  Questlove

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Drunk
  • Beer

• I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Long
  • Blessed

• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Death

• It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Difficult
  • Runs