Epictetus Golden Sayings

#1. You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)

Tamora Pierce

#2. Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Todd Rundgren

#3. Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Adrian McKinty

#4. From an aunt, long ago: Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Robert Breault

#5. Is this why you think you are chosen by God, because only you can understand the funnies that you make about yourself?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change.

Sam Smith

#7. With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

#8. False hope is a dangerous tool to employ

E.J. Swift

#9. I wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.

Geoff Stults

#10. So go ahead and
make your way
Back from the edge
of yesterday
No one knows what
Can't be known
'Cause when you start
You're all alone
But take enough steps
Take enough steps
Take enough steps
And someday
Someday you'll be home
Heather Wells, Untitled

Meg Cabot

#11. Mario Draghi became the first major central banker to cut a key interest rate below zero as he unveiled a series of radical measures to stave off a crippling bout of deflation, and signalled his willingness to take further action.

Anonymous

#12. A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. Get into the habit of collecting miniatures of your toiletries and keep these in your suitcase.

Sophie Miller

#14. Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.

Epictetus

#15. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

Bryan Kest