Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Me

• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Important
  • Live
  • Athlete

• What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Ignore

• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• Very little is needed to make a happy life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Happy