Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Seneca the Younger

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• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

  

  Ed Emberley
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  • Guy
  • Hair

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Guitar

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• I only seem to date younger women.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Women
  • Only
  • Date

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parents
  • College
  • Imagination

• Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Movies
  • Drink
  • Russia

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Lost
  • Goal
  • Young

• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Star

• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress
  • Sacrifice
  • Survival

• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Family

• Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?

  

  George Jackson
  • Power
  • Attack
  • Awe

• It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Hard