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

• I'm insanely close to my sister.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • Sister

• I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

  

  Diego Luna
  • Life
  • Powerful

• Man, my days in Oakdale were a whirlwind.

  

  Lamman Rucker

• So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Taken

• 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