Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Seneca the Younger

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Idea
  • Vague

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Sides

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• Take the risk. Take the chance. Put your heart and soul into it, because when you put your soul into it, you will become what you've always dreamed. You yourself will become a legend.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Risk

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

  

  George J. Mitchell
  • Time
  • School
  • Law

• At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Heal