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

• 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
  • Fall

• 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 keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Torments

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Adversity

• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Change

• 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