Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca the Younger
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
Candy Crowley
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Nancy Pelosi
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Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.
Rajneesh
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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas
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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
Penn Jillette
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
Andy Serkis
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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. Macaulay
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When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.
Gabrielle Roth
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca the Younger
