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

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• 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

• It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • World

• Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar for that.

  

  Bernard Hopkins

• The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

  

  Dave Brat

• I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Age
  • Grandmother

• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, 'I 'll lay my life,' said he, 'somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Life

• νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει

  

  Plutarch