Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Quotes to Explore
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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I don't want to end up losing my soul.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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He was foggy for a few hours, but he was feeling better than he did early in the morning.
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O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
