Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

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• I always separated sports and my personal life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Always
  • Sports

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Brother

• I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Job
  • Think

• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Road
  • Thought

• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Humor

• If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  

  Dale Bumpers
  • Job
  • Education
  • Environment

• 'Science Fiction, 1938' Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science

• Society says with the authority of its police power how intercourse will and will not occur. Any act so controlled by the state, proscribed and prescribed in detail, cannot be private in the ordinary sense. Privacy is essentially a sphere of freedom immune from regulation by the state. In that sense, intercourse has never occurred in private.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Sadness