Epictetus Quotes

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Epictetus

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Collection

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Learned

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Religious
  • Problems

• I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Wed

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Kid

• I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Think
  • You
  • Hand

• There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Internet

• As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • Dream

• All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

  

  Eisaku Sato
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Up
  • Why
  • Mother

• I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

  

  Deidre Hall
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Survival

• Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Courage

• We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Confined