Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Why
  • American

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Why
  • Justice

• All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Christian
  • Military

• Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Time

• I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fashion

• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Wife
  • Flying

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Up
  • Imagination

• A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

  Elliott Erwitt

• When the going gets tough, the tough get an uzi.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Uzi

• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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