Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
-
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
-
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
-
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
-
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
-
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
-
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
-
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
-
I get to meet different directors and different people.
-
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
-
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
-
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
-
Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
-
Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
-
Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
-
I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.
-
I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.
-
I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.
-
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
-
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
