Epictetus Quotes
There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.Epictetus
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls -
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
Kara DioGuardi -
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
Gary Johnson -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama
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In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
R. Kelly -
I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
Xun Kuang
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Francesco Guicciardini -
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube -
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Malcolm X -
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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You never know what you find once you really get going.
Jan Hammer -
My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
Duane Chapman -
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane -
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.
John Desmond Bernal -
There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
Epictetus