Epictetus Quotes

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I always try to be reasonable and effective.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Always
  • Try
  • Reasonable

• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Washington
  • Creature

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reality

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Family
  • Planning

• I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

  

  Martin Bormann
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Struggle

• The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Time
  • Job

• In our own country, from the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to action.

  

  Jeff Flake
  • Country
  • Action
  • Profound

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Hunting
  • Creature

• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Thought

• I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

  

  Jay-Z
  • Water
  • Baby
  • Rap

• Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Trying
  • Sleep
  • Tomorrow

• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Ambitious
  • Bounds
  • Reasonable

• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Creature

• If some people keep saying that the press is still not free in Turkey, then I would like to say this: there has been a coup attempt in Turkey. And there are people siding with the coup plotters. And there are - there is also media outlets that have been against - that are against the coup attempt. So my question is that against the media that supported the coup, will the Turkish justice, judicial system, not take any steps? Of course it will.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Justice
  • Turkey
  • Supported

• By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Practice
  • Risk
  • Fail

• Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Dream
  • Stars

• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Acceptance

• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

  

  Epictetus
  • Creature
  • Reasonable
  • Supported