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?'Plutarch
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.
J. B. Pritzker -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
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.
Edan Lepucki -
I like doing my own stunts.
Ram Charan -
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Ornette Coleman -
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt -
I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. Watt -
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.
Karen Armstrong -
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang -
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.
Gary Sheffield
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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.
Harbhajan Singh -
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
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.
Daddy Yankee -
Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
Kate Mara -
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Samuel Johnson -
Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.
Edie Brickell
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
Walker Evans -
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
Frank Gaffney -
The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.
Yolanda Hadid -
Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
C. S. Lewis -
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Victor Hugo -
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?'
Plutarch