Epictetus Quotes

Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).

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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Change
  • Government
  • Style

• Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • You
  • Chef

• Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Fire
  • Create

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Inspiration
  • Storytelling

• That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People

• I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Cool

• If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life

• Plato said that virtue has no master Republic 617e. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Money
  • Honor
  • Plato

• It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Mystery

• I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People

• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Die
  • Tragedy
  • Cocaine

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • Gun

• Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).

  

  Epictetus