Epicurus Quotes

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Day

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Three

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Important
  • Study

• I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of greatness - waiting for the Food.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Father
  • Food

• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• Christ is risen, and you are overthrown! Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen! Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice! Christ is risen, and life reigns! Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb! For Christ, being raised from the dead, has become the first-fruits of them that have slept.

  

  John Chrysostom
  • Life

• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

  

  Epicurus
  • Life
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