Plutarch Quotes

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Giving
  • Mad
  • Name

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Simple
  • Now

• People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hate
  • Team

• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Job
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Detail

• A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Born
  • Politician
  • Bachelor

• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Political
  • Study
  • Productivity

• When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Building

• I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Money

• If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

  

  Plutarch
  • War
  • Fight
  • Delights