Libby Houston Quotes

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Libby Houston

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• If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Red

• The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Words
  • Inspired

• The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Feel

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • May
  • History

• ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει.

  

  Archilochus

• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Survival

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Time
  • Space
  • Water

• I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Good

• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  

  David Cone
  • Baseball
  • February

• There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Dumb

• If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Earth

• I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • World
  • American
  • Alone

• Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

  

  Jennifer Granholm

• Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Important

• Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

  

  Anne Northup
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Wife

• She is a girl so I wouldn’t slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what she’s doing to the youth of America.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • She
  • America
  • Girl

• To be admitted to one of the hospitals, a person will do exactly what he does to be admitted to la Charite : send somebody to find if there is a vacant bed. But also there would be clearing house in the center of Paris.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • House
  • Person
  • Paris

• Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Age
  • Small
  • Dying

• Plato … teaches the separation of the human soul from its 'home' in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • World
  • Home
  • Soul

• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Plato

• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  

  Libby Houston
  • Plato