Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
Fisher Stevens -
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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 -
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 -
Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
Samantha Morton -
Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.
Vicki Lawrence
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I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
Daniel Craig -
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 -
Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
Alastair Reynolds -
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 -
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 -
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
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Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.
Bryan Q. Miller -
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III -
I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
Christina Applegate -
I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.
Cynthia Ozick -
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Elliott Abrams -
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
Anita Borg
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
David R. Brower -
Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
Matt Blunt -
In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.
Dan Schulman -
From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.
Heather Locklear -
Even at the cost of what is called honor and honesty? That is comfortable philosophy, and having preached and practiced it all my days I've no right to condemn it. But the saints would call it sinful and dangerous and tell you that life should be one long penance full of sorrow, sacrifice and psalm-singing.
Louisa May Alcott -
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
Seneca the Younger