Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.Seneca the Younger
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris -
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Cameron Diaz -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour -
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer -
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
Madeleine Stowe -
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
Vash Young
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
Larry Wilmore -
I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
Queen Latifah -
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul -
I never played with anything like toys.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
Rafael Nadal
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
Ralph Merkle -
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks -
But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
Samantha Mumba -
As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.
Wang Shi -
In manliness he will greet my trouble, Should I be bled, I should evidently get better; Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.
Taliesin -
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow
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If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.
Jenna Morasca -
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
Mary Ellen Chase -
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas -
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Miguel de Cervantes -
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Seneca the Younger