Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Seneca the Younger

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Step
  • Comfortable

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Negative

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I believe clothing tell a story.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Believe
  • Story
  • I Believe

• I invested all my money in debt.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Invested

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Philosophy
  • Simplicity
  • Plus

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

  

  Alan Rudolph

• The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

  

  Henry Hopper
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Space

• It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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