Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

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• The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Sea

• I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Love
  • Addict
  • Ping-Pong

• Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

  

  F. Matthias Alexander
  • Understanding
  • Effort

• What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Help
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Teach
  • Kissing
  • Lady

• Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Music
  • Challenges

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Law
  • Miracle
  • Creation

• We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Despair

• Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Soul
  • Republican Party
  • Economic doctrine

• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mind
  • Speed
  • Flight

• Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Manners
  • Gentle

• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Win

• The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Houses
  • Tempest