Plutarch Quotes

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Simple
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Opinion
  • Games

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Home
  • Want
  • Independent

• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Good
  • God
  • Love

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Real
  • School

• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Woman
  • Gossip
  • Falling

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

  

  Plutarch
  • Real
  • Excellence
  • Recognized