Socrates Quotes
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
Socrates
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
Naveen Jain
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
Patrick Whitesell
When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
Pat Benatar
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
Belief is thought at rest.
Larry Harvey
The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
Dambisa Moyo
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Yakov Smirnoff
I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.
Bella Andre
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
Jason Bateman
When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
Marianne Williamson
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
Socrates
