Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
Seneca the Younger
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
Laini Taylor
When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
Umar
In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
Anne Boleyn
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Edward McKendree Bounds
There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
Saib Tabrizi
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.
Byron York
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
Lois McMaster
I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.
Michael McCaul