Weinheim Quotes & Sayings

This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus, in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life. — Daniel Klein

Most people neglect their lives and allow all kinds of accidents, mishaps and misfortunes to happen to them. — Sunday Adelaja

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe — John Mayer

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed. — Paula Poundstone

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. — Gerrit Smith

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride. — Danny Huston

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. — Henry Cabot Lodge

I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people. — Andie MacDowell

The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. — Paul Hawken

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. — Roger Bannister

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze. — Mike Tyson

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom. — Mark Indelicato

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. — Lasse Hallstrom