Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
Aaron Bruno -
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
Al Pacino -
The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
Leon Blum -
I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
Lorenzo Snow -
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn -
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
Lisa See
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A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
G. E. M. Anscombe -
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde -
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
Artie Shaw -
The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality.
Napoleon Hill
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
Aziz Ansari -
Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
Dalai Lama -
Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
Susan Powter -
John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.
Conan O'Brien -
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
Plato -
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
Seneca the Younger