Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Quotes to Explore
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
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There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
