Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
Flula Borg -
No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.
Rachel Caine -
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
Walker Percy -
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln -
Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
George Clooney
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
Galway Kinnell -
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca the Younger -
We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.
Elizabeth Bear -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.
Sarah Kane -
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid -
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus -
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore -
Who has more leisure than a worm?
Seneca the Younger