Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm happy to fight anybody.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • Fight
  • Anybody

• My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Gentleman
  • Manners

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!

  

  Said Nursi
  • Brotherhood
  • Traditions
  • Verses

• Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Success
  • Emotional
  • Regret

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Woman
  • Vitality
  • Vigor

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
  • Multitude

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Military

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Think
  • Otherwise

• I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

  

  Inbee Park
  • American
  • Golf
  • Younger

• 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

• I have to do this my way.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Way

• I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• It does not matter how smart you are if nobody knows what you are talking about.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Smart
  • Matter

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sound
  • Vices
  • Contagious