Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

Seneca the Younger

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
  • Relationship

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Moral

• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Door

• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Doubt

• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Life

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • History
  • Earth

• It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Up
  • Good
  • Song

• America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Great
  • America
  • Depression

• I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Growth

• We are the adult power in the world. It is because of the United States, our action or inaction, that there will be a resolution here.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • World
  • Power
  • Action

• We’d have a motherfucking shitload of dogs! Horses. Peacocks. Oh to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be made geniuses waiting to take over everything.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Live
  • Waiting
  • Color

• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Taken

• Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Christ

• Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Drama

• I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • City
  • Promise

• I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

  

  Christopher Young
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Earth
  • Thanksgiving