Epicycle Quotes & Sayings

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people ... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you ... when there is no spiritual growth ... there is no spiritual strength ... there is no lasting happiness ... and, there is no real or lasting wealth. — Bob Proctor

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. — Paul Ryan

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really. — Steffan Rhodri

I've never heard anyone else called "the nicest person in the world." For Gail, it's an entirely deserved title. — J.D. Vance

The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men. — T. Coleman Andrews

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents ... I try to get inside my stories. — Ben Mezrich

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. — Plato

Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small difficulty. For these theories were not adequate unless they also conceived certain equalizing circles, which made the planet appear to move at all times with uniform velocity neither on its deferent sphere nor about its own epicycle's center. — Nicolaus Copernicus

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life. — Ronald Biggs

If we do right, we shall rejoice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If life is my way and nirvana is my destination, then which path should I take, religious or spiritual? — Debasish Mridha

A smile is worth a thousand pictures. — Rodney Richards

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying! — Bruce Lee

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. — John Milton