Politeia Quotes & Sayings

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future. — Wang Shi

People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more. — Susan Wojcicki

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government. — Marianne Williamson

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. — Emil Cioran

Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length. — Plato

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act. — Hugo Chavez

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw. — Irving Stone

How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet. — William Davis

Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon. — Sydney Owenson Morgan

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe. — Douglas Adams

Death is dancing me ragged. — Linda Hogan

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me. — Alessandro Nivola

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor! — Tae Yun Kim

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge? — Aristotle.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good. — Stephen Hunter