Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
-
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
-
Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
-
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
-
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
-
When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
-
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
-
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
-
Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
-
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
-
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
-
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
-
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
-
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
-
All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
-
Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.
-
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
-
I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.
-
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
-
The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.
-
But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.
-
Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.
-
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
