Plotinus Quotes
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.Plotinus
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
Rafael dos Anjos -
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden -
Chinese people age overnight.
Karl Pilkington -
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
Rabih Alameddine -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface -
Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
Naomi Watts -
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
Vijay Mallya -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland -
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Ida B. Wells -
I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
Gabrielle Union -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam Abell -
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel
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Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.
David Harvey -
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
Mandy Moore -
O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
John Milton -
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
Plotinus