Plutarch Quotes
When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: 'Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone'.Plutarch
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis -
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole -
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
Yochai Benkler
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
Gareth Gates -
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
Fat Joe -
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
Walter Annenberg
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
Yehuda Berg -
I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.
Nancy O'Dell -
Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.
Frans van Houten -
We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
Christine Gregoire -
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: 'Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone'.
Plutarch