Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Seneca the Younger

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• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Future
  • Choices

• I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Airplane

• The government in Macedonia is committed to move forward in the direction of political reforms and economic reforms and with inter-ethnic relationships so that it can become eventually a member of the European family institutionally.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Direction
  • Economic Reforms

• The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Knows

• And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

  

  William Scranton
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Incidents

• I started playing in a band when I was eleven years old. We did a three piece, and we started playing instrumentals.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Band
  • Playing
  • Instrumentals

• People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

  

  Kristoffer Rygg Borknagar
  • People
  • Community
  • Style

• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Dance
  • Arts
  • Music

• No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.

  

  Andrew Loomis
  • Knowledge
  • Talent
  • Well

• Knowing that I am out here, with a full open heart, travelling and living my dream with my guys playing music, that allows me to come home and be a better man, a better dad, knowing that I am fulfilling what I have always wanted to do.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Home

• The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Met

• Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Human

• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Power
  • Exercise
  • President

• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Chamber

• Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

  

  Nicola Formichetti
  • Inspiration
  • Source
  • Japan

• Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • History
  • Memories
  • Mythology

• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Bounds
  • Instability