Plutarch Quotes

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • New
  • New York
  • Divorce

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

• Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.

  

  Ted Hughes

• Life is a four-letter word.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Life

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• I am a Democrat. But first and foremost, I am a Coloradan and an American who wants government to function and solve the challenges we face as a country, then make way for people to pursue their dreams without interference.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Hate
  • Cool
  • Hair

• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Strong
  • Opinion

• I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

  

  Max Apple

• Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.

  

  Future
  • Family
  • Help
  • Health

• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

  

  Alarmel Valli
  • Dance
  • Wine
  • Performance

• Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Joy
  • Thing

• Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Public Life
  • Vulture
  • Civil Servant

• Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Small
  • Vision

• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

  

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