Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

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• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Work
  • Done
  • Giving

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Destiny

• I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Good
  • School
  • Lost

• I have a very positive outlook.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Positive
  • Very
  • Outlook

• My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Wife
  • Honest
  • Meat

• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Not Knowing

• I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.

  

  Mark Feuerstein
  • Life
  • Women

• We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Real
  • Always

• Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.

  

  Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Buena Vista Social Club
  • Music
  • ERA
  • Cuban

• I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • People
  • Women
  • Why

• We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Opportunity
  • Calamity