Plutarch Quotes

A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • City
  • Thought
  • Marble

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Growing
  • Cash
  • Asset

• As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Change
  • Software
  • Digital

• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
  • Geniuses

• I was never really good in school.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Good
  • School
  • Never

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Archetypal

• I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Power
  • Party

• And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Party
  • Progress
  • Politics

• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Small
  • Waiting

• When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Love
  • Dance

• I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Drawing
  • Lasts
  • Favors

• Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Game
  • Simple

• There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sick-rooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Happiness
  • Christ
  • Anxiety

• A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'

  

  Plutarch
  • Soldier