Socrates Quotes

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.

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• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Money
  • May
  • Democracy

• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Movies

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Giving
  • Doubt
  • Suspicious

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Done
  • Think

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Time
  • World
  • Day

• Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Season
  • Only
  • Intense

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Long
  • America
  • Fun

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Space

• The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home

• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Proud

• Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Woman