Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Seneca the Younger

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Like

• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Impossible

• The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • American
  • Success

• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • History
  • Government
  • Enemy

• Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Go
  • Trends

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Power
  • Soul

• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Body
  • Hospital
  • Recipe

• She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Good
  • She

• OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Power
  • Sick

• User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Design

• Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Mother

• I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Truth
  • City

• What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Gold

• It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

  

  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  • Good

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Long
  • Matter
  • Greatness