#ms

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice

This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#brain #no-fun #dreams

No man is wise enough by himself. ↗

— Plautus

#himself #man #wise

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#coming #dying #films #halloween #idea

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#career #definitely #films #hopelessly #horror

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#films #how #i #know #look

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance