Discourses Epictetus Quotes & Sayings

No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart. — Nikki Glaser

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it. — Sam Shoemaker

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments. — Vinod Khosla

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture. — Albert Camus

As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers. — William R. Lowry

which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W — Ryan Holiday

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be. — Ellen Galinsky

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. — Wesley Morris