Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

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• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
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• There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Definitions

• She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • She

• The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

  

  Lisa See
  • Past
  • Sense
  • Loss

• There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poetry
  • Read
  • Dislike

• O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Control

• I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Worry
  • Patient
  • Physicians

• Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Sound
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  • Obsessed

• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  

  Robert Frost
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  • Good
  • Black

• When a skater gets older, they become more mature, and they can assume more responsibility for their skating, ... That's how I've evolved. I know what works and what doesn't, and Mr. Nicks is a great coach for me.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Responsibility
  • Mature
  • Skating

• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Hurt
  • Skeptical
  • Tribulation

• I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Years
  • Persons
  • Ego

• The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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