Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • People
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few

• I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Successful
  • Being
  • Pet

• I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Successful
  • Grounding

• When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Thinks

• I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Up
  • Think
  • Always

• Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • You
  • See

• I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Said

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Memory
  • Learned
  • Forgetting

• Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Control

• I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis

• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Long
  • Moments
  • Sacrifice

• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

  

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