Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
Taylor Caldwell -
When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.
Rita Ora -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
Andrew Cuomo -
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde -
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides -
Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
Sarah Silverman
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The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.
Bill Gates -
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel -
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.
Andrew Revkin -
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
Isaac Watts -
After everything we’ve done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.
Courtney Milan -
If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
Ned Vizzini
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Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition.
Dan Smoot -
I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.
Bonnie McFarlane -
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
Henry Selick -
Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state's most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.
George Will -
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor -
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
Gary Cooper
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Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Brian Tracy -
By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.
Isaac Newton -
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Be harsh with yourself at times.
Seneca the Younger