Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

  

  Randy Couture
  • People
  • Reality
  • Crazy

• David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Touch
  • Phone
  • James

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Hate
  • Numbers
  • Chapter

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Well
  • Satisfied

• I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Like

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Love
  • Hunting
  • Outside

• I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Jesus
  • Off
  • Statue

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Important
  • Love
  • Support

• I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Analog
  • Slide-Rule

• To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Disagree
  • Disagreeable

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
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  • Music

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • You
  • Will

• Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Door
  • Working
  • Rules

• Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Up

• A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca