Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

Seneca the Younger

• Ability
• Mountain
• Height
• Dwarves
• Colossus

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • May
  • Mountain

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
  • Conquer

• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Mountain

• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Height

• The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Mountain

• Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Cold
  • Mountain
  • Waterfall

• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  

  David Suzuki
  • High
  • Brain
  • Mountain

• I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • God
  • May

• There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • High
  • Risk
  • Mountain

• There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Help
  • Road
  • Balance

• If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Sea
  • Ocean
  • Mountain

• So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Attention
  • Hurt
  • Waiting

• The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Done
  • Years
  • Repair

• Mark took most of the script and looked good. I'm sure that's the way we'll start.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Training
  • Improvement

• I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Acting
  • Start

• A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ability
  • Mountain
  • Height