Plutarch Quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Long
  • Years
  • Ice

• Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Kind
  • Drama
  • Own

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Film
  • Dance
  • Military

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Support
  • Need
  • Manners

• In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Low-Key

• I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Think
  • You
  • Acting

• I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moving

• I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Die
  • Blessed

• Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Rope

• I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Individual

• As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Band

• "The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

  

  Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Suffering
  • Discovery
  • Americans

• Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Health

• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

  

  Plutarch