Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?Seneca the Younger
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
Barbara Corcoran -
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
L. Neil Smith -
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Sally Jewell -
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
Cam -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain -
I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey -
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes -
As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
Kate Williams
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Harold Rosenberg -
Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
C. S. Lewis -
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
Chance The Rapper -
Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.
Cory Gardner -
I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.
Frankie Cosmos -
But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
Bruce McCulloch
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We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.
Janet Mock -
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
Terence McKenna -
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan -
My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
Seneca the Younger