Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Seneca the Younger

• Serious
• Air
• Voice
• Ears
• Concerts
• Flattery
• Exclusion

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• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

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• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

  

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• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

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• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

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• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

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• I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

  

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• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

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• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

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• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

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• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

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• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

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• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  

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• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

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  • Work
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• You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

  

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• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

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• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

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• You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

  

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• Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

  

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• If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

  

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  • Start
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• I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)

  

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• You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

  

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• Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

  

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• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Serious
  • Air
  • Voice