Epictetus Quotes

Give thyself more diligently to reflection: know thyself: take counsel with the Godhead; without God put thine hand into nothing. (115).

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• 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

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Mind
  • Think

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Conflict

• When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Parents

• Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Great
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood

• Give thyself more diligently to reflection: know thyself: take counsel with the Godhead; without God put thine hand into nothing. (115).

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Hand
  • Reflection