Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at handSeneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
Hank Johnson -
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Fernand Leger -
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy -
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
Hanya Yanagihara -
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
Damien Chazelle -
I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
Gail Z. Martin -
You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
Dan Hill -
I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
Madhuri Dixit -
A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
Floyd Skloot -
Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
Carly Fiorina
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman -
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
Abbey Clancy -
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Ed Markey -
R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
Sam Raimi -
I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
Barack Obama
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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
Monty Hall -
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris -
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
Seneca the Younger