Emperor Marcus Aurelius Quotes

#1. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), "fire feeds on obstacles.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

Sharman Apt Russell

#3. Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man, to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and a feeling of affection and freedom and justice. These words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus strike me as pretty good advice, for even the orneriest young scamp.

Walker Percy

#4. The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the time phrased it, to 'explain hell to the savages.

Mark Twain

#5. The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Jeff Cooper

#6. After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Jason Calacanis

#7. You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

Paula Radcliffe

#8. Never is too long a word even for me...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

Michael O'Leary

#10. Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

Mitch Albom

#11. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

Claire North

#12. People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

Alan Arkin

#13. Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept

Anthony Stafford Beer

#14. A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

Charles Dickens

#15. Everything enfolds in the sacred-time.

Lailah Gifty Akita