Epictetus Quotes
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips -
I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
Rachel McAdams -
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk -
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson -
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Patrick Kavanagh -
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo -
Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
Sam Altman
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My philosophy is to be me.
Yohan Blake -
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato -
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence -
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge -
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber -
The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
Felix Dennis -
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
Aaron Levie -
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.
Newt Gingrich -
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus