Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Seneca the Younger

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Character
  • Cold
  • Late

• Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Start
  • Old
  • Late

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Lazy
  • Late
  • Late-bloomer

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• It gets late early out there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Early
  • Late
  • Out

• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Way
  • Late
  • Push

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Me
  • Star
  • Late

• Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Asking
  • Still
  • Sell

• The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • News
  • Hear
  • Late

• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Late

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Government
  • Late
  • November

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Church
  • Late
  • Legal

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.

  

  Elise Hu
  • Taboo
  • Diplomatic
  • Prostitution

• Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

  

  Francis Spufford
  • Culture
  • Sense
  • Common

• That comes too late that comes for the asking.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Asking
  • Late