Plutarch Quotes
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Quotes to Explore
-
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
-
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
-
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
-
There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
-
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
-
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
-
This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
-
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
-
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
-
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
-
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
-
Science is about unravelling nature.
-
I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
-
I never have anything to talk about.
-
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
-
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
-
It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.
-
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.