Epictetus Quotes

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Epictetus

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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• I work in a very contained environment, usually.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Very

• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • End
  • Cutting
  • Build

• You can't just let nature run wild.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Run
  • WIld

• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Movies

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Different
  • School
  • Heart

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • Service
  • Yourself

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Think
  • Hero
  • motivation

• India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Value
  • Healthy
  • System

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I make work not to give answers but to question things.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • Question
  • Give

• I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Time
  • Now
  • Decade

• I do not like violence.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Like
  • Violence

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• Thy duty do? rejoined the voice,Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice;But shalt thou then, when all is done,Enjoy a love, embrace a beautyLike these, that may be seen and wonIn life, whose course will then be run;Or wilt thou be where there is none?I know not, I will do my duty.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Future
  • Promises
  • Human Way

• I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Want
  • Parents
  • Support

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Dog

• He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

  

  Epictetus
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Little