Plutarch Quotes

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

Plutarch

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• You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Pet

• If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Long
  • Family

• As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Animal

• With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

  

  James Brown
  • Want
  • Success
  • Use

• We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Words
  • Energy
  • Spiritual

• You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Like
  • Look
  • Factory

• The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Needs
  • Stories
  • Lines

• In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Desire

• We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Work
  • City
  • Problem

• I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Intense

• We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People

• Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Mean

• How far should a person go in the name of true love?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • True Love

• When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Time
  • Good
  • Energy

• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Understanding
  • Stones
  • Highways

• Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Earth
  • Positive
  • Pollution

• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Envy
  • Dare

• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  

  Plutarch
  • Wounds
  • Cried
  • Pollution