Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca the Younger

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Mean
  • Actor
  • Along

• If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Chance
  • Same
  • Leader

• Freedom is living without chains.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Freedom
  • Living
  • Chains

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect
  • Mean
  • Relationships

• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Day

• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Control

• When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Chance

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Blessings

• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Life
  • America
  • Society

• With this crazy lifestyle, you have to think of places where you can still have your freedom.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Freedom
  • Crazy

• The United States and our allies across the world are working every day to fight terrorism. We must continue those efforts, and we must promote peace and freedom.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Freedom

• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Freedom
  • Law

• It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to. That means we have to categorize that person. We can call them emergent or neo orthodox or someone who feminizes scripture. There's the category, let's stick them in the category then just blow up the box and him along with it.

  

  William P. Young
  • Mean
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. … It seems to me that at the very heart of the controversy over the existence of mind control is a bias toward believing in the power of people to resist the power of situational forces, a belief in individual will power and faith to overcome all evil adversity. It is Jesus modeling resistance against the temptations of Satan, and not the vulnerability of Adam and Eve to deception. More recently, examples abound that challenge this person-power misattribution.

  

  Benjamin Zablocki
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Challenge

• I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Adversity

• You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Way

• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Chance