Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Younger

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• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Think
  • Negative
  • Nostalgia

• I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Think
  • Seriously

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Happiness
  • He
  • Complaint

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Love

• I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Change
  • Creativity
  • Jazz

• My songs are about who I am.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Songs

• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Basketball

• Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Individual
  • Confident

• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Yourself

• And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Small

• I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Day
  • Best
  • Win

• Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Angry

• The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• 'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Alone
  • Fool

• The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • World
  • War
  • Beginning

• The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Moving
  • Door

• I know where I am headed and how will I evolve. There's nothing stopping you. I don't have a family background on films, and I will need to work for it.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work
  • Family

• It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

  

  Jose Eduardo dos Santos
  • People
  • Confidence

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.

  

  John Wesley
  • God
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • People
  • Jump

• If you wish to be loved, love.

  

  Seneca the Younger