Epictetus Quotes

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Today
  • Working
  • Events

• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Realized

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Business
  • Events
  • Improve

• I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Young
  • Events
  • Hockey

• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Human
  • Events
  • Extraordinary

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Control
  • Events
  • Reduced

• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Hours
  • Events

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

  

  Alan Alda
  • War
  • President
  • Situation

• When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Events
  • Actions

• Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

  

  Leon Uris
  • People
  • Events
  • Places

• To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Work
  • Art
  • Expression

• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Power
  • Present

• Economists should study financial markets as they actually operate, not as they assume them to operate—observing the way in which information is actually processed, observing the serial correlations, bonanzas, and sudden stops, not assuming these away as noise around the edges of efficient and rational markets.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Information
  • Markets
  • Operate

• Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

  

  Epictetus
  • Events
  • Arrive
  • Appointment