Plutarch Quotes

From Themistocles began the saying, 'He is a second Hercules.'

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• I believe that dogma is often evil.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Often

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Love
  • Small
  • New York

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Long
  • Community

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Same

• I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • Popular
  • Excited

• I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Win
  • Fight

• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • School
  • She
  • Day

• I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Family
  • Love
  • Wind

• In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May

• I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • Different
  • Live
  • City

• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Doe
  • Sincerity
  • Ceremony

• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• What does Arsenal mean? It means class. The structure of the Club, everything has a classy feel about it. It isn't always about success, there is more than that and this is what makes it a cut above the rest.

  

  Charlie Nicholas
  • Mean
  • Cutting
  • Class

• The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

  

  Daniel Mazia
  • Brain
  • Ability
  • Gift

• From Themistocles began the saying, 'He is a second Hercules.'

  

  Plutarch