Socrates Quotes

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Complaining

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Old
  • Rules

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Challenge

• I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

  

  Alexandra Chando
  • Up
  • City
  • College

• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Men
  • Education
  • Peace

• We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Greece