Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Sex

• One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Different
  • Greatest

• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Artists
  • Equal
  • Themselves

• If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

  

  Edmund White
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Beach

• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Light
  • Air
  • Photograph

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Sorry
  • Laughing
  • Blame

• With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Philosophy
  • Sorrow
  • Guilt

• Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Risk

• Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mind
  • Romance
  • Unusual

• All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Soldiers
  • Dreamed
  • Armistice

• Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Learning
  • Genius
  • Ordinary

• I don't think about this stuff on that level. I approach this whole thing as a guy who plays guitar and feels a particular way.

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Guy
  • Feels
  • Guitar

• Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Control
  • State
  • Textbooks

• Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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