Medzhid Bektemirov Quotes & Sayings

Plato utterly condemns the poets for publishing trivial, false and indeed wicked stories about the gods, such as that they fight with each other, or are overcome by emotions like grief, anger, mirth. Reluctantly, he will not allow Homer in his Republic, and he is very angry with the tragic poets for spreading unworthy ideas of the Deity.

It may well be that there were inferior tragic poets who deserved Plato's strictures, but so far as concerns the tragic poets whom we know, Plato's attack is absurd. It is the attack of a severely intellectual philosopher who was also more of a poet than most poets have contrived to be; one who invented some of the profoundest and most beautiful of Greek myths. 'There is a long-standing quarrel', says Plato, 'between philosophy and poetry.' So there was, on the part of the philosophers, and most of all in Plato's own soul. — H.D.F. Kitto

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself. — Winston Churchill

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people. — Anna Faris

Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits. — John Grisham

Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay. — Samantha Sotto

They say no one knows if we all see red the same way. Except traffic cops. — Greg Fitzsimmons

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. — Edward Burns

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! — Mark Twain

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all. — Bryan Adams

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer. — Shane MacGowan

Education reveals the potential of people and market. — Toba Beta

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive. — Paz De La Huerta