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
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
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
Laurie Graham
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
Poetry is the eloquence of verse.
William Cullen Bryant
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Malorie Blackman
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
A. N. Wilson
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
