Socrates Gorgias Quotes & Sayings

[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life. — Billy Graham

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. — George Carlin

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them. — Irwin Winkler

The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch. — Li Ka-shing

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. — Gorgias

Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take. — Mary Gaitskill

I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well have been me to first propose this idea, just now. — Dan Garfat-Pratt

This isn't me giving him a memory. This is me giving him my heart. — Katie McGarry

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack. — Alasdair MacIntyre

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops. — Shang Yang

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another. — Charlie Kaufman

I didn't break up with you because of your sperm. — Cynthia Hand

Annie stared into the flames for a while and then cleared her throat. "Has it occurred to you that maybe there's actually a monster out there?" she asked. — Elise Forier Edie

Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell's and Bradbury's books could not do this - but we still can. What — Timothy Snyder

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter. — Anita Hill

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud? — Michael Chabon

I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself. — Jude Watson

always enjoying reading books — Belal Fadl