Epictetus Quotes

Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Voice
  • Started
  • Positivity

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Different
  • Done
  • Never

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Organization

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Characters

• We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Driving

• You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Know
  • Learn

• In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.

  

  J Balvin
  • Life
  • Fighting

• 'Righteous Abel,' says Matthew 23:34-45. What luck! So there is a righteous race! No such thing: Abel dies leaving no children, a fact full of meaning. He is unable to transmit his righteousness.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Children
  • Luck
  • Leaving

• I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Audience
  • Potential
  • Seeing

• I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Different

• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • World
  • Art
  • Exercise

• Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?

  

  Epictetus
  • Children