Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Seneca the Younger

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• The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
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• As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
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• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Giving
  • Irish
  • Ireland

• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Mean
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• People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Joy
  • Place

• My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Thinking
  • Window
  • Staring

• I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....

  

  Robert Frost
  • House
  • Fly
  • Bird

• My toughest opponent has always been me.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Always
  • Opponent
  • Toughest

• What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • War
  • President
  • Force

• I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

  

  William Klein
  • Giving
  • Special
  • Photograph

• I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Voice

• Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Means
  • Welcomed

• This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Humans
  • Discovery
  • Giraffes

• Lots of people ask me whether they can become strong. Most certainly! You all can acquire great strength, if you have the will and proper guidance.

  

  George Hackenschmidt
  • Will
  • Strength
  • Guidance

• I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Actors
  • Ignore

• Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Stories

• When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Mean
  • Failing
  • Hiding

• It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Failing
  • Impulse