Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

Seneca the Younger

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

  

  Man Ray
  • Name
  • Simply
  • Documents

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Success
  • Positive

• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Why
  • Success

• If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Too Much

• Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Me
  • Purpose

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Fine
  • Level

• I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

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  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.

  

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  • Great
  • Support
  • Amazing

• I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Hope
  • Science

• We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Up
  • Brother

• The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Government
  • Universe

• I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Done

• The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Fun
  • Problem
  • Mean

• I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving