Plutarch Quotes

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• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Work
  • Price
  • Oil

• I owe the public nothing.

  

  J. P. Morgan

• 'Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.''Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,' I said sternly. 'Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Cancer
  • Capricorn

• I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ugly

• I know a few different women who really enjoy fantasy football, but if it doesn't work out for them in a given season, it's not like they're going to go into a three-month funk. Whereas I know a lot of guys, myself included, who, if they have a bad season or if they lose a couple tough games, are just crushed.

  

  Max Handelman
  • Work
  • Different
  • Women

• Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Integrity

• When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Attention
  • Technology

• It would take enormous expertise for Amazon to win in every category. Do you think McDonald's could be number one in hamburgers, seafood, and Chinese food?

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Food
  • Chinese

• In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls, based on models that failed to accurately estimate voter turnout. But the public polls, especially statewide polls, painted a fairly accurate picture of how the electoral college might go.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • College
  • Picture

• When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• I'm just getting older and better.

  

  Neal Schon

• We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

  

  Daniel Yergin
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Anxiety

• Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

  

  John Quelch
  • People
  • Political

• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Action
  • Reflection

• Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • World
  • War
  • Motivated

• In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Women
  • Community
  • Playing

• I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Love
  • Memories
  • Paris

• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

  

  William James
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

  

  Plutarch
  • Consult
  • Concerning