Plutarch Quotes

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

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• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Intuition

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Concert

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Being
  • Boat
  • Rocking

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Happy

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Work
  • Service
  • Option

• As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Trying
  • Sleep
  • Sometimes

• One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Care

• The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Politics

• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

  

  Plutarch
  • Care
  • Service
  • Good Man