Epictetus Quotes

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

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• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Desire

• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Looking
  • Anyone
  • Shock

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Giving

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • You
  • Violence
  • Better

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Family
  • Famous
  • Italian

• What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

  

  Epictetus
  • Events
  • Judgments
  • People's Minds

• There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Rest
  • Problems

• Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

  

  L. Whitney Clayton
  • Up
  • Help
  • Empathy

• Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

  

  Epictetus
  • Road
  • Trouble
  • Contentment