Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Man
  • Day

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Self-Esteem

• Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Religious
  • Spirit

• Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Now
  • Privacy

• In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Broken

• Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People

• To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

  

  Fred Wilson

• I would love to tell you that I don't worry about losing the weight after the baby is born, but I do try to think before I eat. The first cookie? Definitely! But I try to think about if I really want to do the extra sit-ups before I eat the second one.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Worry
  • Baby

• Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Diversity

• On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • People
  • Job

• How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

  

  Pete Gallego

• Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

  

  Bryan Q. Miller
  • City

• For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • World
  • Fashion

• Every race is totally different.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Different

• I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Practice
  • Courage
  • Limitation

• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Addiction

• You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.

  

  Ashley Qualls
  • Friends
  • Know

• Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Unblest