Plutarch Quotes
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
Quotes to Explore
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.
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My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
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You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
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That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.
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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
