Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Funny
  • More

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Find

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Day

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• I am mentally strong.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Strong
  • Mentally

• Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Shopping turns me off.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Me
  • Shopping
  • Off

• We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Love
  • Honor

• At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Age
  • Used
  • Only

• After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

  

  Brady Corbet
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• I looked out, the field was, looked like million, million and a half people. They showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. And they said, 'Donald Trump did not draw well.' I said, 'It was almost raining!' The rain should've scared them away but God looked down and said we're not going to let it rain on your speech.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Trump

• When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Wonder
  • Fathers
  • Daughters

• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Age
  • Cities
  • Destroys