Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca the Younger

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • You
  • Action
  • Idea

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Action

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Action
  • Always

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Action

• Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

  

  Jay Chiat
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Unconscious
  • References
  • Retro

• What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Future

• Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cooperation

• No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Action
  • Willpower
  • Blameless