Epictetus Quotes

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Control
  • Internet
  • Big

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Blame

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Good
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Night
  • Control

• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Blame
  • Lament