Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Feel

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Period
  • Nothing
  • Coffee

• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • World
  • Space

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Pride

• We are still able to grow as long as we are alive.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long

• If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Power
  • Happy

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
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  • Speech