Epictetus Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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• Honesty will never break you.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

  

  Fanny Brice
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• Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

  

  Ferid Murad
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• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

  

  Jack Whittaker
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• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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• I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • Community
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  • Hero

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
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  • Isolation

• That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Home
  • Career

• I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Natural
  • Warrior
  • Guess

• An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Kind
  • Author
  • Worst

• My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration
  • Poverty

• I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Funny

• In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Picture

• On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Political
  • Peace

• I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Work
  • Service
  • Projects

• It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Book
  • House
  • Beautiful

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Politics

• A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Death
  • Man

• After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Envelopes
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• Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

  

  Epictetus
  • Prison
  • Against