Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
-
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
-
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
-
For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
-
My health is fine.
-
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
-
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
-
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.
-
I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
-
I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
-
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
-
To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
-
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
-
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
-
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
-
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
-
I definitely like wearing leotards.
-
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
-
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
-
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
-
I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
-
Wiederhorn, Jon (February 8, 1996). Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back. Rolling Stone.
-
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
-
What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things.
