Plutarch Quotes
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
Jacky Ickx
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
Sally Mann
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence
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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
Andrew Stanton
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.
William P. Young
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper
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'No,' said Miss Marple. 'Murder isn’t a game.
Agatha Christie
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
Aharon Appelfeld
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
Plutarch
