Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Seneca the Younger

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• The apartheid system renounces no violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • System
  • Apartheid

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • World
  • Religious

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Think
  • Working

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Law
  • Wife
  • Son

• Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

  

  B. J. Fogg
  • Good
  • Plant

• I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Die
  • Tree
  • Top

• It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective tree. My mother is sitting on a bench nearby, rocking the buggy in which my sister is asleep. The city, beyond the lacy wall of trees, is humming with gentle noises. The sun has just passed its highest point and is warming me with intense, oblique rays. I pick up a reddish brown chestnut, and suddenly, through its warm skin, I feel the beat as if of a heart. But the beat is also in everything around me, and everything pulsates and shimmers as if it were coursing with the blood of life. Stooping under the tree, I’m holding life in my hand, and I am in the center of a harmonious, vibrating transparency. For that moment, I know everything there is to know. I have stumbled into the very center of plenitude, and I hold myself still with fulfillment, before the knowledge of my knowledge escapes me.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Knowledge
  • Tree
  • Sister

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • High
  • Competition

• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tree
  • Plant
  • Roots