Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Unjust rule does not last forever.

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• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • She
  • Proud

• When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Like
  • Military

• I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Nothing
  • Run
  • They Say

• 'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Fool

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • War
  • America

• Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...

  

  Cole Porter

• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Women
  • Control
  • Question

• I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

  

  Ellie Kemper

• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Passion

• Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music

• "Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Blessed
  • Benedetto

• Don't just exist, be a part of life.

  

  Uriah Hall
  • Life

• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Personality

• Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

  

  Yann Martel
  • High
  • Fear
  • Food

• Unjust rule does not last forever.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Forever
  • Rule