Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Find
  • Hard

• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Today
  • You
  • Movies

• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tradition
  • Guide
  • Jailer

• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Always
  • Calling

• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Weakness
  • Too Much
  • Leopard

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Live
  • Reach

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Community
  • Myself
  • Ballet

• It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Country
  • Generosity

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Reading
  • Day
  • Never

• In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Law

• Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life

• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli

• And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended effects that everybody was hoping for or that the president and administration certainly was hoping for. So I think it's time to lay some new solutions on the table, some new ideas.

  

  Kristi Noem
  • People
  • Time

• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Brain

• We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Europe
  • Bars
  • Stripes

• When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Science

• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mistakes

• A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca