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
  • You
  • Never
  • Honesty

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

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Beauty
  • Personal
  • Reference

• Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Known
  • Destroying

• 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
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

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

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • More
  • About
  • Over

• 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
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Religion

• My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Trouble
  • Down

• 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
  • Christian
  • 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
  • Writing
  • 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

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Chance
  • Prison

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Great
  • America
  • Culture

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

  

  Epictetus
  • Prison
  • Against