Plutarch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
-
You can't control where your heart goes.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
-
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
-
There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
-
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
-
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
-
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
-
While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
-
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-
Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
-
I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
-
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
-
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
-
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
-
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
-
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
-
I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
-
To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.
-
If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier.
-
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
