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?'
Plutarch
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
Jasper Fforde
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Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.
Charles Bukowski
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R. R. Martin
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I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A soldier told Pelopidas, 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'
Plutarch