Epicurus Quotes
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Quotes to Explore
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse -
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
Maggie Carey -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
Ian MacKaye -
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Gary Larson -
I hate the domestic life.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
Wanda Jackson -
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
Walter Hagen
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
A. S. Byatt -
I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
Victor Mature -
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
T. J. Miller -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
All rappers are princesses like me.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
Orlando Bloom
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We are one another's strength.
T. B. Joshua -
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
Eric Ripert -
There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.
Anthony Doerr -
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
Gavin Newsom -
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus