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 will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Death
  • End

• 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

• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Death
  • Symbol
  • Elvis Presley's

• I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • Cute

• I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Emma Caulfield
  • Science
  • Quality
  • Imagination

• DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Work
  • Heaven
  • Mirror

• Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Help
  • Strong
  • Community

• 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