Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

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Seneca the Younger

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • Caribbean

• I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Worst

• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Peace

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sun

• Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

  

  Patti Smith
  • God
  • Night
  • Nice

• Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • God
  • Real
  • Heart

• He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Worry

• Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Power
  • Thoughts
  • Negative

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • May
  • History
  • Powerful

• Life without literary studies is death.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
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