Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.Seneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
Katee Sackhoff -
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali -
How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey -
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Major Owens -
It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
Zhang Xin -
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill -
I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.
Candace Parker -
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
Yuna -
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara -
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson -
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
Ramakrishna -
Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
Barack Obama -
Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
Camille Paglia
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
Zadie Smith -
Today's age of politicized and intolerant Christianism seems to me to be one of those moments when Christianity has estranged itself most thoroughly from the priorities and spirit of its founder. But this will pass. Christianity will survive Christianism. Some true followers of Jesus will recover their faith from Caesar's grip at some point.
Andrew Sullivan -
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
Penn Jillette -
We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
Estelle Ramey -
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca the Younger