Today Quotes
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Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.Epictetus
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.R. A. Salvatore, Homeland
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993