Epictetus Quotes

The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Adventure

• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Write

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• The writer is all alone.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Alone
  • Writer

• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Security

• Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Country
  • American
  • Dream

• The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Philosophical

• Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Couple

• The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.

  

  Epictetus
  • Action