Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Seneca the Younger

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
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• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Power
  • King

• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Style
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• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Jane

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Success
  • Never
  • New York

• On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

  

  Brian Clough
  • People

• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Action
  • Limits

• Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Home
  • Power

• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Self-Control
  • Ruling