Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

Seneca the Younger

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• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Truth
  • Question

• My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Mom

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
  • Fashion

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Journey
  • Rose

• Peace is always beautiful.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Plant

• A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • God
  • She

• Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn’t quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Done
  • True
  • Faith

• We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Earth
  • Concentration
  • Lawyers

• It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Wisdom
  • Actions
  • Punishment

• If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)

  

  Abdel Hakim Abdel Samad Kamel
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wisdom