Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Ted Cruz -
I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
Zack Greinke -
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
Warren Farrell
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova -
Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
Natalie Dormer -
I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.
Sam Heughan -
You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.
Yani Tseng -
I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
Narciso Rodriguez
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
Daniel Dennett -
There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
Tanith Lee -
No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.
Basil Hume -
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
H. L. Mencken -
I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
Yann Martel -
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
Lucy Stone
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When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far.
Charles Benbrook -
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
James Russell Lowell -
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
John Caudwell -
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
Bear Grylls -
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
James Balog -
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
Seneca the Younger