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'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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

• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Big

• 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 E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

  

  John Bruton
  • Freedom
  • Respect
  • Justice

• The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.

  

  Mick Ebeling
  • Way
  • Best

• Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Energy
  • Relationship
  • Thoughts

• I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Long

• For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

• 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