Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Seneca the Younger

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Military
  • Army

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Person

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

  

  David Harvey
  • Money
  • Value

• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Good
  • Blow

• You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Fall
  • Universe
  • Sky

• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Hero

• The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Hurt

• I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • White House
  • Occupy

• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  

  Frank Church
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Solitude

• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Tea
  • Cost
  • Cups

• It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

  

  John Milton
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Apple

• Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

  

  Lois Tilton
  • Time
  • World
  • Pain

• It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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