Plutarch Quotes
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.Plutarch
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
Walt Mossberg -
I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
Action Bronson -
It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
Damian Woetzel -
It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
Eden Hazard -
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
Young Jeezy -
Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
Camille Paglia
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
Carl Jung -
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
Edward Everett Hale -
And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
Brian Schweitzer -
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
James D. Watson -
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
Andrew Pyper
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I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
Allen West -
The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.
Luis Alberto Urrea -
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.
Austin Stowell -
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
Bill Dedman -
Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.
Corey Stoll
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann Hesse -
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
Haruki Murakami -
Bullies - political bullies, economic bullies, and religious bullies - cannot be appeased; they have to be opposed with courage, clarity, and conviction. This is never easy. These true believers don't fight fair. Robert's Rules of Order is not one of their holy texts.
Bill Moyers -
'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
Lindsey Buckingham -
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
Elizabeth Edwards -
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
Plutarch