Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Seneca the Younger

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• Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sad
  • Now
  • Divorce

• I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Like
  • Priorities
  • Remembered

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Know
  • Doubt
  • Colleagues

• Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Support
  • Building
  • Israel

• I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Kid

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Words
  • Independent
  • Communication

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Moving
  • Film
  • Touch

• Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Job
  • Law

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • True
  • Political
  • Law

• Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Live
  • Experience

• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • Nature
  • Joy
  • Changes

• If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Hope
  • Looking

• That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Why
  • Think
  • Better

• And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Electricity

• When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Better
  • Committee

• I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Well
  • Mental

• Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • Wrong
  • Well
  • Govern

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Well