Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
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• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

  

  Daniel Defoe
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• I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
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• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• 'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

  

  Karl Marx

• Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
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• I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Shastriji had digested the message of the Gita. Some of us have memorised it in full and spout couplets from it at will. But I learnt of what it meant for someone to have actually digested it from Shastriji.

  

  Narendra Modi

• The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
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• There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.

  

  John Delaney

• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
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• At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Together
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• We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Mind
  • Personality
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• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

  

  Seneca the Younger
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