Marcus Aurelius Quotes

All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

Marcus Aurelius

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• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Law

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Experience

• When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.

  

  Bill Nighy

• Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Great
  • Important
  • Humanity

• I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Today
  • Guy

• Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Opportunity
  • Sports

• There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.

  

  Dick Van Dyke

• I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Life

• I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

  

  James Corden
  • Good
  • School
  • Wish

• I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

  

  Lydia Ko

• I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

  

  James Altucher

• I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director, so it's really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Couple

• Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

  

  Alan King
  • Up

• It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Creative

• I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • People
  • Sports
  • Training

• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Mother
  • Free
  • Hand

• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Capable
  • Endurance
  • Adversaries

• All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Endurance