Plutarch Quotes

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

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• I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movies
  • Same

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Taken
  • Gift
  • Back

• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Character
  • City
  • Delhi

• Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Myself
  • Opinion
  • Hear

• We could have had it all...

  

  Adele
  • All
  • We

• All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Ass

• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  

  Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  • People
  • Stop

• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Yoga
  • Self

• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Wind
  • Destiny
  • Ocean

• Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Fall
  • Water

• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Study

• This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Live
  • War
  • Age

• If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Nation
  • Soldiers

• What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Mozart
  • Murdered

• The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Child
  • Kid
  • Crime

• You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Creative
  • Able
  • Empathy

• I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

  

  Plutarch
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