Plutarch Quotes

Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.

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• I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Eye
  • Fame

• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Rights
  • Bill Of Rights

• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • News

• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Different
  • You
  • Doing

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Always
  • Doing

• Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
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• I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Celebrity
  • Shows

• I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Long
  • Home
  • Want

• For showing loyalty in the midst of prosperity calls for no particular admiration, but always, if men show themselves steadfast when friends have fallen upon misfortunes, this is remembered for all times.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Loyalty

• America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• To imagine means to make images and to move them about inside one's head in new arrangements.

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

  

  Larry Wall
  • Science

• I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

  

  Kato Kaelin

• Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Religious
  • Prayer

• I think that the friendship that women share is so powerful. In fact, there's nothing quite like it. People talk about mother-child bonds, but I would argue that female friendship bond is also in a league unto its own.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Mother

• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Poverty
  • Hunger

• Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.

  

  Plutarch