Marcus Aurelius Quotes

A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Future
  • Audience
  • Engagement

• I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ethics

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Up
  • Garden

• I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.

  

  Burgess Owens
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  • Black
  • Proud

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Bitter

• In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Men
  • Earth

• A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)

  

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