Plato Symposium Quotes

#1. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

#2. Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

Nancy Spain

#3. There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going.

Carrie Coon

#4. We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.

Stephen Harper

#5. The unsolicited promise is one of the most reliable signals because it is nearly always of questionable motive.

Gavin De Becker

#6. People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Brenna Yovanoff

#7. Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Tatjana Soli

#8. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

#9. Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Plato

#10. Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. After that kiss, shouldn't she be fainting at his feet? But she's grinning.

Cassandra Clare

#11. And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.

Robin Jones Gunn

#12. It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Martha Stewart

#13. The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle.

Jo Walton

#14. We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.

Richie Havens

#15. In private, though, you may call me Mr. Cavendish

R.K. Lilley

#16. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

#17. Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

Mason Cooley

#18. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato