Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Seneca the Younger

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• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Me

• To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Care
  • Painting

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Movie
  • House

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Future
  • Japanese

• 'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Forest

• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Earth

• Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.

  

  Anne Frank

• Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Live
  • Soul

• Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Life
  • Why

• The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

  

  Bob Etheridge
  • Responsibility

• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Appreciation

• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Death
  • Hurt
  • Wounded

• One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Wonder
  • Dying