Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Seneca the Younger

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• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Me
  • Ready

• Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Yourself

• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Technology

• Are people behaving as if they believe this is a weak economy? I see no indication of that. In fact, I see the contrary.

  

  Edward Lazear
  • People
  • Believe
  • Economy

• Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Question

• Our lives will never be the same without him.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Lives

• I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dream
  • Alabama
  • Racists

• If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Understand
  • Teachers

• I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

  

  George Sanders
  • Fool
  • Least
  • Yours

• If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Skills
  • Believe In
  • Expressed

• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Enjoy

• Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Speak

• What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • God
  • Space
  • Weapon

• A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Weapon
  • Sword
  • Slayer