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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• I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • Critic

• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • Accountability

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Me

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Fun

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Rock
  • Record

• I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Actor

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • School
  • Week
  • Student

• It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • God
  • High
  • Support

• 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
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• 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
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • King

• Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Literature
  • Criticism
  • Awareness

• The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Different
  • Dog

• I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

  

  Matthew Gray Gubler
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Night

• The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Night

• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Night
  • Expectations
  • Loses