Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

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• I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

  

  Zendaya
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Appreciated

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Doing
  • Easy
  • Start

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • You

• I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Me
  • Back

• The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Food
  • Party

• My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writer
  • Favorite
  • John

• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Walk

• Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Great
  • Job
  • Career

• You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Money
  • Control
  • Communication

• Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart
  • May

• I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Up
  • Black
  • Brother

• I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

  

  Boss Tweed
  • Long

• But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• The goal is to not be patted on the back for hiring a woman, because it shouldn't be an exceptional thing. It should just be commonplace that women should have equal opportunities as men.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Men
  • Women

• Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

  

  Marcus Aurelius