Epictetus Quotes

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Parents
  • Small

• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Purpose
  • Stage
  • Emotions

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Respect

• Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Good
  • Liar

• I love hearing about bad behavior. It's just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Weird

• I really enjoy spending time at home.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Time
  • Home

• It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

  

  Epictetus
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