Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Government
  • Economic
  • Limits

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• I took after my father.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Father
  • After
  • Took

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Practice

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Moving

• Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures) says.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Worth
  • Determined
  • Word Of God

• I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Wish

• Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Cancer
  • Drug

• Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • True
  • Funny

• Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • See