Epictetus Quotes

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

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• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Life
  • Come

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Come

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Power
  • Society
  • Reading

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Technology

• If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Jesus

• Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Country
  • America
  • Free

• Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Breathe

• Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

  

  Epictetus
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