Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

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• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

  

  Yaphet Kotto
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Either

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lies

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Music
  • Business
  • Woman

• I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Candy

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Free

• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Work
  • Together
  • Group

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Long

• I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.

  

  Emily Giffin

• I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • World
  • Good

• The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Safe

• I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • People
  • World
  • God

• What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Words
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