Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I can't do anything in moderation.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
Abbi Glines -
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
Oscar Isaac -
I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
Jodelle Ferland -
The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
Clara Shih -
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
Joe Kaeser
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They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.
Andrew Sean Greer -
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Epictetus -
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
Stern Winter loves a dirge – like sound.
William Wordsworth -
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.
Cyril Connolly -
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
John Adams
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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
Emily Meade -
When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.
David Roberts -
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
John Updike -
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
Saadi -
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Seneca the Younger
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I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama -
In L.A., you seem to meet only one sort of person.
Amanda Eliasch -
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
Seneca the Younger