Plutarch Quotes

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• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Always
  • Grace
  • State

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• 'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Always

• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Islamic

• The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Me
  • Show
  • Communist

• In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Curiosity

• I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.

  

  Lee Smolin

• I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • America
  • Death
  • Giving

• I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

  

  Alan Ball
  • School
  • High

• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Party

• We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

  

  Bob Taft
  • God
  • Together
  • Strong

• I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

  

  Caroline Corr

• Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

  

  Laurie R. King

• I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Environment

• I work and come home and just have a type of normal home life. It's what I've always wanted. I've never felt like I'm pressured into doing something and that I've got loads of responsibility.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Same
  • Alien

• Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our mom, our dad, our family, our religion. And some people, eventually, evolve beyond that until they're more human-centric or even spirit-centric where they care about everything.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Family
  • Care

• Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Remember
  • Started
  • Mouse

• The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Single

• νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει

  

  Plutarch