Epictetus Quotes

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • City
  • Acceptance

• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Long
  • Years
  • Ice

• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • High
  • Know
  • Guys

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Fiction

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Will
  • Stand
  • Relevant

• I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

  

  Bea Arthur
  • God
  • Comedy
  • Voice

• I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Play
  • Movies
  • Guitar

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Wish
  • Religious

• Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Search

• If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Habit

• It’s weird that there are so many people at Harvard who do amazing things outside the classroom. It just so happens that people like to watch what I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Weird

• When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wonder
  • Enemy
  • Facts

• What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Power

• Use your brain, not your endurance.

  

  Peter Thomson
  • Brain
  • Endurance

• I'm comfortable with my body and it was a creative choice. I know that might make some women feel uncomfortable, but we need to stick together instead of getting angry at each other for our choices. I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Together

• One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hope
  • Winning
  • Fight

• To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

  

  Epictetus