Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

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• Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • You
  • Distance
  • Shopping

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

  

  Faith Hill
  • House
  • Water
  • Drink

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Up
  • Character
  • Soul

• Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.

  

  Art Spiegelman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • School

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money
  • Stop

• I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Help

• It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

  

  Katie Aselton

• My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Car

• Laughing is the best calorie burner.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Laughing
  • Calorie
  • Burner

• I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

  

  Lev Grossman
  • School
  • Book
  • Reading

• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Good
  • Design
  • Engineering

• My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Fashion
  • Independent
  • Philosophy

• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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