Phocion Quotes

#1. Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, ... he turned to his friend and said, Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?

Plutarch

#2. Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.

Plutarch

#3. Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.

Plutarch

#4. Bacon distrusts the people, who were in his day quite without access to education; "the lowest of all flatteries is the flattery of the common people";41 and "Phocion took it right, who, being applauded by the multitude, asked, What had he done amiss?

Will Durant

#5. A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#6. We are constantly opposed and yet perpetually preserved! How

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

Takashi Miike

#8. I get along fine with the press.

Kevin Pietersen

#9. I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

Jonathan Demme

#10. Someone once told me that just because you're beat-up ... " "Doesn't mean you're beaten,

A&E Kirk

#11. Fine. It was Goddamn Cat, then.

J.R. Ward

#12. Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Oscar Wilde

#13. The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

Pat Condell

#14. I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Damien Hirst

#15. The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

Pauline Reage

#16. Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Tony Blair

#17. Let your mind be harmonious with nature; let it bloom with all of her beauty to find inner peace.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson