Plautus Quotes

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

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• I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Home
  • Like
  • Second

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
  • City
  • Blessed
  • Holy

• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
  • Go

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Space

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Live
  • She
  • Help

• Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Character
  • Games
  • Behaviour

• I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Feeling
  • Morning
  • Fire

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

  

  Plautus
  • Character