Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca the Younger

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Process
  • Act
  • Scripture

• I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fear

• Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
  • Liberty
  • Communism

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Forever
  • Famous
  • Glory

• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • God
  • Country

• I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Wife
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh

• Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Proud

• You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they’ll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don’t change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Words
  • Hurt

• Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I guess I've always had a similar-looking face.

  

  Peter Billingsley

• Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Plant

• I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Ballet

• The Kardashian family have earned their place as an American dynasty.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Family
  • American

• We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Life
  • God
  • Why

• I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Time
  • Bitter
  • Realist

• From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."

  

  William Morris
  • Lying
  • Stress
  • Comfort

• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Comfort
  • Bitter