Epictetus Quotes

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

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• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Man
  • Hollywood
  • Ready

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Myself
  • Difficult
  • Fame

• Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Fire

• Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • You
  • Without
  • Consent

• My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Dream
  • Act
  • Again

• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wise

• I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Vegetarian
  • Seafood

• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Films
  • Psychological

• Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• Films are just consumables.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • People
  • Mind
  • Guy

• It's funny to see how people react to the project, to read their thoughts, and I wonder aloud, 'Did they even watch the movie? Did they even get it?' I know we, myself and the entire cast, put a lot of heart, love and humor into 'Meet the Peeples'. I'm very proud of that film and what we were able to accomplish.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Movie

• I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Children

• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

  

  Dean Acheson

• What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? What are the “shoulds” that have trailed you during the first half? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Passion
  • Questions
  • Hearts

• I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Father in Heaven

• Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

  

  Bernie Krause
  • Culture
  • Problem
  • Senses

• Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.

  

  Tommy Franks
  • Home
  • War
  • Boys

• I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Honest

• Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

  

  Epictetus
  • Cannot
  • Borne
  • Handles