Epictetus Quotes
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, 'Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.'
Epictetus
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
Rachel Griffiths
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp
Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
Maggie Stiefvater
I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
Nate Parker
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Kate Hudson
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Lajos Kossuth
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
Ramana Maharshi
Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
Eddie Marsan
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
Madeleine M. Kunin
But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
Calista Flockhart
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm Forbes
Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
Jerry Della Femina
Many people - when they think about North Korea and the dictatorship, or the military or nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, those things - tend to forget ordinary citizens are living there.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
Anthony J. Carson
Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.
Angus Deaton
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, 'Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.'
Epictetus
