Persued Quotes & Sayings

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth ... . That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it?"
"Not in the first generation," he said, "but you might succeed with the second, and later generations. — Plato

no net ensnares me — Charlotte Bronte

Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to be persued, not the persuer. — Kristi Cook

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about. — Steven Squyres

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. — Brandon Boyd

We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests. — Linda Lantieri

A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl. — Catherynne M Valente

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor. — Omar Sharif

All truly great art is propaganda ... — Ann Petry