Plutarch Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
Sammy Cahn -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
Sam Palladio -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
Warren Farrell -
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
Brown Campbell -
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Ed Koch
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
Zosia Mamet -
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
Zaha Hadid -
I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
Sacheen Littlefeather -
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Randy Pausch -
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
John Gay
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.
Tad R. Callister -
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
A. N. Wilson -
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
Edward Coke -
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!
M. E. W. Sherwood -
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
Plutarch