Plutarch Quotes

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, 'O Fortune!' said he, 'for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.'

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• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

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• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

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• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
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• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

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• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

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• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

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• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

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• I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

  

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• As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.

  

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• I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

  

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• You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

  

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  

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• Composed for renown am I, a verse heard on the stone-doored isle in the four-quartered fort. Tranquillity and obscurity mingled shiny wine their drink before their retinue. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went upon the main, Save for seven none came up from Castle Rigor.

  

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• This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

  

  Paulo Coelho
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• To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

  

  Paolo Nutini
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• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, 'O Fortune!' said he, 'for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.'

  

  Plutarch
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