#ear

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

#conquest #disposed #fear #foreign #leader

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#dying #find #left #many #out

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. ↗

— Gary Player

#game #golf #haven #how #i

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. ↗

— Gary Player

#early #golf #golf course #heaven #hope

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#choice #could #earnings #figured #film

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. ↗

— Sophocles

#bear #child #directs #heaven #mighty

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#been #being #charming #early #evil

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ↗

— Walker Percy

#aware #become #despair #his #life

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#best #desire #encourage #facts #figures

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#appreciate #barren #creativity #deserts #fields