Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

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• When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

  

  Halsey
  • Words
  • Day
  • Yourself

• I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Sweet
  • Very
  • Spectrum

• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Growth
  • Population
  • Top 10

• There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Science

• We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Way

• The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

  

  Umair Haque
  • People
  • Up
  • Dream

• There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Small

• Where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Guilty

• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Confusion
  • Tyranny
  • Plurality

• We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Mistake

• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Law
  • Sleep
  • Dancing

• I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Knowledge
  • Littles
  • Expression

• A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Means

• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  

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