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

• We change our tools and then our tools change us.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Change
  • Tools

• For dessert, Mom ordered us carob-chip cookies sweetened with fruit juice, which were about as delectable as that sounds. After we finished eating, we made sure to give the waitress all our food and dirty napkins so they could be composted.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Eating
  • Sounds
  • Dessert

• For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

  

  Murray Gell-Mann
  • Science
  • Leaving
  • Natural

• My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Energy
  • Emotion
  • Films

• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Help
  • Way
  • Minutes

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

  

  Plutarch
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  • Headaches