Plutarch Quotes

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

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• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Ideas

• Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Aging

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

  

  Charlotte Ross
  • Game

• When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Music

• Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Writers
  • Soldiers
  • Painters

• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Self
  • Towns

• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Destiny
  • Fate

• Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Moving

• We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Opposites
  • Hunters

• At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

  

  William James
  • Wisdom
  • Acceptance
  • Concern

• The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Peace
  • Northern Ireland
  • Political stability

• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known, and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Form
  • Activity
  • Intellect

• People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Causes
  • Secrecy

• Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

  

  Plutarch
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