Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

Seneca the Younger

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Dinner
  • Thanksgiving

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Life
  • Business
  • Learning

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• 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

• Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Shopping
  • Habits

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

  

  Fleur East
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Before

• Music is how you feel.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • You
  • Feel

• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Light

• No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Mind
  • Space

• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  

  Paul Valery
  • Time
  • Thoughts

• Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Health
  • Body
  • Sound