Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Seneca the Younger

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Future
  • Write
  • I Write

• Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Small
  • Food
  • Starting

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Day
  • Bible

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  

  Ovid
  • Pain
  • Grief
  • Calmness

• And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Different
  • Together
  • Working Together

• The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Principle
  • Carry
  • Employees

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Perseverance

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  

  Samantha Power
  • School
  • Hope
  • Support

• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • True
  • Faith

• They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Drinking
  • Irish

• t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Use
  • Anybody
  • Blockchain

• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Feedback

• AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

  

  Rico Love
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Favorite

• It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Youth
  • Impetuosity