Epicteus Quotes & Sayings

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role. — Elizabeth Pena

It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but a great deal of what is acclaimed as literary art in our time offers no comfort or fulfillment to anybody. — Judith Skelton Grant

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians. — Jasmine Guinness

It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But there are times when a curse is more bracing than an endearment. — Jacqueline Carey

Well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads. — William Shakespeare

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful — Fernando Pessoa

Our ethics and systems of justice, our entire moral order, are founded on the notion of society as a collective of individual selves-- autonomous, introspective, accountable agents. If this self-reflective, moral agent is revealed to be illusory, what then? — Paul Broks

I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you. — Kelly Slater

Middle Way school is uncomfortable with the potentially essentialist implications of "foundational consciousness" as postulated in the eightfold system. — Dalai Lama XIV

But love isn't quantifiable on paper. — Maggie Stiefvater