Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.Seneca the Younger
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Funny is an attitude.
Flip Wilson -
All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
Karen Joy Fowler -
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
Zooey Deschanel -
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone -
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
Halsey -
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
Ted Levine -
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London -
Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
Naftali Bennett -
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith -
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
Walt Alston
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
Fawn Hall -
I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
Ian Thorpe -
We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
Yoko Ono -
You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
Rachel Caine -
People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
Washed Out -
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
Cathy Guisewite -
Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.
Elena Ferrante -
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the Younger