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

• Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • History
  • Lost

• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Red

• But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

  

  Alan Lewis

• Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Single

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

  

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