Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

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• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Book
  • Reader

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Words
  • Fight
  • Coward

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • May
  • Soul

• There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.

  

  James Mattis
  • Retirement

• I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American

• My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Money
  • Father
  • Attention

• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Business
  • Technology

• I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

  

  John Hawley
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Adversity

• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Prosperity

• Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity
  • Fidelity