Plutarch Quotes
Demosthenes told Phocion, 'The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.' 'And you,' said he, 'if they are once in their senses.'Plutarch
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
Samuel L. Jackson -
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
Orison Swett Marden -
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
Zaha Hadid -
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
Yoshihiko Noda
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
Nathan Fielder -
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
Zig Ziglar -
I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.
Felicia Day -
When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
Quincy Jones -
It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
Bebe Rexha
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In Bollywood, they like to put us in short clothes. And I am very shy; I don't like wearing revealing stuff, though my image is such. Unfortunately, it's a body-obsessed industry.
Nargis Fakhri -
I'm talkin to you, sucka nigga you can stunt all ya wanna stuntI know you won't bust a gun, yeah punk-I'm talkin to youFuck nigga, you can hate all you wanna hateI know you a fake, make no mistake bitch, I'm talkin to you
T.I. -
Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
No ally is better than one’s own race.
Kim Young-sam -
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written’ … it evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo Leopold -
Political philosophy has lost its credibility in proportion as politics itself has become more philosophic than ever in a sense.
Leo Strauss
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We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
Byron Howard -
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
Bernard Kouchner -
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe -
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen -
Demosthenes told Phocion, 'The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.' 'And you,' said he, 'if they are once in their senses.'
Plutarch