Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

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• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I am not that big a method actor.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Actor
  • Method

• I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Never
  • Afraid
  • Issue

• You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Forever
  • Stupid
  • Knows

• The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Poverty
  • System
  • Program

• Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Grace
  • Supernatural

• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Smile
  • Winter

• I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Night
  • Earth

• Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Children

• What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Answers
  • One Thing
  • Black Women

• Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Good
  • Start

• Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Greatness

• One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

  

  William Carlos Williams
  • Perfect
  • Realizing
  • Advantage

• Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

  

  Ethan Bennett Farnum
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Avarice Greed

• Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Powerful
  • Christian

• He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sin
  • Commands
  • Forbids