Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Seneca the Younger

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• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Well
  • Jews
  • Middle East

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

  

  Fleur East
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Before

• I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Blues

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Tell

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Retirement
  • Bear

• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Long
  • Character
  • Risk

• Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • She
  • Confidence
  • Struggle

• I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • School
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

  

  Wilford Brimley
  • Horses
  • Arena
  • Quarter

• Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Effort
  • Rich

• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • Life
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Situation
  • Changing
  • Plane