Plura Quotes & Sayings

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

So, you're like Angel? (Amanda)
You watch way too much television. Angel has a soul. I don't. (Kyrian)
Now you're back to being scary again. (Amanda)
Baby, you ain't seen scary yet. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.] — Horace

Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned — Heidi Heilig

I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too. — Maggie Stiefvater

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together. — Alex Gansa

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes. — Yukio Mishima

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this. — David Levithan

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.] — Horace

The measures of a life is not in its duration but in its donation. — Debasish Mridha

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men. — John Ruskin

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light ... — Nick Gordon

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want? — Mark Victor Hansen

Do not pass by the oasis without stopping to drink. — Otto Gross