Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Seneca the Younger

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• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Up
  • You
  • Morning

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Fighting

• Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Purpose
  • Used
  • Market

• I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • World
  • Myself
  • Garden

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Done
  • Evil

• There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Period

• If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Risk

• In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Evil

• We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Work
  • Century
  • Bunch

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Mean

• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Crazy

• Even half a chance beats none.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Chance
  • Half
  • Beats

• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Blessing