Plutarch Quotes

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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• I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Warrior

• Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Story
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Shield

• Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Short
  • Warrior
  • Pacifist

• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • America
  • End
  • Warrior

• I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Mother
  • Warrior

• It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Prince
  • Warrior

• If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • True
  • Competition
  • Warrior

• Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.

  

  Charles Wolfe
  • Rest
  • Warrior

• Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Done
  • Job
  • Warrior

• Drax isn't your average stereotypical soldier/warrior/musclehead. He actually has some depth. It was a character that I wanted to play, not only because I love acting so much, but also, I needed to play to get people to actually take me seriously as an actor and get away from the pro wrestling label.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • People
  • Character
  • Soldier

• Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Life
  • Great
  • Happy

• Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Weird
  • Personality
  • Wrestling

• I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Warrior
  • Firearms
  • Winchester

• I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Heart
  • War
  • Warrior

• Padmasree Warrior has been on all the lists. The most powerful women in tech. The most powerful women in the world.

  

  Emily Chang
  • World
  • Women
  • Powerful

• I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Judged
  • I Hope
  • Mortal

• We weren't really making a lot of shots. They weren't really making a lot of shots. I can imagine how it was for the fans, but for us to be the team that was on top, it was a great night for us.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Team
  • Imagine
  • Fans

• My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Job
  • Greek tragedy

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Important

• A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

  

  Plutarch
  • Warrior
  • Shield
  • Spartan