Marcus Aurelius Quotes

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

Marcus Aurelius

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• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Eyes
  • Moment
  • Blue

• One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Great
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• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Said
  • Institutions
  • Signs

• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Respect
  • Child
  • Door

• I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Stars
  • Looking
  • Gutter

• I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Like
  • Doing
  • I Can

• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Small
  • Gun

• People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Spiritual

• I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • World
  • Good
  • City

• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Life
  • Trying
  • American

• I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Proud

• The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Life
  • Done

• One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People
  • Children
  • Dog

• 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Comedy

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Health

• I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.

  

  James Denton
  • People
  • Boyfriend

• How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

  

  Marcus Aurelius