Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

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• All my books are optimistic!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Books
  • Optimistic

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Cautious

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

  

  Laura Wade
  • World
  • Want
  • Political

• Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Industry
  • Waste
  • Fantastic

• While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time

• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'

  

  Margaret Cho
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• I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.

  

  Tim McGraw
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  • Dog
  • Sick

• I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

  

  Frederick Wiseman
  • Hope

• The only things I make money on are speeches and books.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Money

• To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Writing

• Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Up
  • Makeup

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Country
  • Together
  • History

• I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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