Epictetus Quotes

It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.

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• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Social
  • Saying
  • Boring

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Excellent

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Success
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Laugh

• My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Know
  • Sister

• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Me
  • Never

• I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Work
  • Great
  • House

• I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free

• If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.

  

  Jack Vance
  • House
  • Past
  • Present

• Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running

• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Technology

• In spite of the many initiatives our society offers to help and support, recovery can be such a monumental task that some give up. They withdraw into themselves. Not least during Christmas and New Year is it hard to feel left out. Tonight my thoughts are with them.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Up
  • Help
  • Society

• Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Pride
  • Ignorance

• Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

  

  James Bovard
  • Party
  • Air

• For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Family
  • Character

• That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Dangerous
  • WIld

• It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.

  

  Epictetus