Plutarch Quotes
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.Plutarch
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
Utada Hikaru -
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe -
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
Yulia Tymoshenko -
Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
Pat Burns -
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan -
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso -
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
Adam DeVine -
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer -
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
Madeleine Albright -
To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou -
I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
Rachel Platten
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
Walt Mossberg -
When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
Maggie Wheeler -
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
Jaan Tallinn -
Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
Canelo Alvarez -
My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
Cameron Russell -
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang -
In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.
Azai Nagamasa -
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
Sam Weller -
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
P. T. Barnum -
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman -
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch