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  • Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

    Lying   Heart   Pride  
    Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  • A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

    Firsts   Steps   Action  
  • If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

    Pain   Betrayal   Florida  
    "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.
  • You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

    Golf   Play   Stoic  
  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  • CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press
  • He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

    Kings   Pain   Moving  
  • Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

    School   Way   Lips  
    Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.89, David C Cook
  • An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

    Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.47, Princeton University Press
  • I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for granted and you have to work for what you get so. That's funny because my friend Frank Anderson said something really funny he goes, "A lot of the people from the midwest are the laziest shits I've ever met." And he's right. I know some. You can't say its a stereotype that only people from the Midwest are that way because there are definitely people I know who hate to work and just want to hang out and drink beer.

    Dad   Hate   Beer  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They have a certain calm to them which is really impressive. They go out there and they're racing 80 miles per hour, or jumping 60 foot jumps, I think they get all their adrenaline out. So during the day, they're just quiet, aloof and stoic superheroes kinda, you know what I mean? They're very, very respectful. It's a very family oriented sport. Everybody knows everybody so there's a lot of respect and understanding.

    Sports   Attitude   Mean  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

    Greek   Despair   Lines  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black
  • I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

    Guy   Trying   Sauce  
    "Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.
  • Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

    Nature   Stoic   Motto  
  • These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.

    Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.509, Macmillan
  • The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.

    Strong   Voice   People  
    "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
  • The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

  • First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

    Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111
  • After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

    Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby
  • When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.

    Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.
  • Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

  • From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

    Heart   Men   Age  
  • You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

    Pain   Agents   Fists  
    Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster
  • Hit the nail on the head.

    Wise   Wisdom   Latin  
    John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press
  • See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored.

    Rap   Winning   Play  
  • A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

    Men   Tears   Woods  
    Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.96
  • Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

    "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.
  • Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

    1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.
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