Epicurus Quotes

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
  • Basketball
  • Pro

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Great
  • Home
  • Fake

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Culture
  • See
  • Said

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Trump

• Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World

• Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

  

  Marisa Ramirez
  • Real
  • Character

• [I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Liberty

• Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Power
  • High
  • Energy

• It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

  

  Epicurus
  • Power