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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Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
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Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.
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A beginning is the end of something, always.
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.
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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.
