Epictetus Quotes

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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• By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Time
  • Bad
  • End

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Something

• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Woman
  • Sun
  • Shoe

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • America
  • History

• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Secret
  • Being
  • Vanity

• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Nation
  • Hip Hop

• I always remember liking school.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • School
  • Remember
  • Always

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Joy

• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • Romantic
  • Belong

• I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

  

  LaToya London
  • Different
  • Listening
  • Enjoy

• Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Yourself
  • Again
  • Push

• When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Together
  • Fashion

• My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

  

  Les Claypool
  • City

• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

  

  Plutarch
  • Words

• Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • May
  • Judge
  • Sweet

• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Morning

• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  

  Epictetus