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

• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Goal
  • Creature
  • Chess Player

• Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

  

  Anthony Robbins

• I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

  

  John Gardner
  • World
  • Conscious
  • Transforming

• All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Art
  • Rich

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

  

  Epictetus
  • Creature
  • Reasonable
  • Supported