Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Seneca the Younger

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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Business
  • Lose
  • Decisions

• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Jew

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Done
  • Forever

• Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • May
  • Government

• We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Two
  • Over
  • Accessories

• It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Sense

• Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Situation

• All great achievements require time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great

• On the men's side we are short in some areas, so we hope to see strong performances out of the areas in which we have strong athletes. We look to continue developing in our throwing events, while also getting our distance runners going.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Performances
  • Athletes
  • Areas

• In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Impossible
  • Stage
  • Impossible Becomes Possible

• We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Simple
  • Chance
  • Promise

• I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Never

• Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

  

  Paul Klee
  • Work
  • Grow
  • Rushed

• There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Desire
  • Things
  • Relationships

• We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Taught
  • Schoolroom