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

• I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

  

  Luke Evans
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Why

• I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

  

  John Stamos
  • Scared
  • Vulnerable
  • Curtain

• Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• 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