Plutarch Quotes

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, 'Either is both, and Both is neither.'

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Bold
  • Paper

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Life
  • Film

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Society
  • Gender

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • August

• It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Entrepreneur

• Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, 'Either is both, and Both is neither.'

  

  Plutarch
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