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

• Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Feel
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• 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 shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Life
  • Death
  • Spiritual

• There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Many

• The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • Work

• The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Words

• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  

  Rene Russo
  • Daughter
  • Wishes
  • Candle

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

  

  Epictetus