Plutarch Quotes

νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει

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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

• Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • World
  • Children
  • Heart

• While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.

  

  Disha Patani
  • People
  • Different

• I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.

  

  Jerry Speyer

• If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

  

  Marco Polo
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει

  

  Plutarch