Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • War
  • Years
  • Year

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Responsibility
  • Security

• The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Emotion

• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • America
  • Society
  • Reality

• I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Camera
  • Seeing

• Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Money
  • Me
  • Painting

• Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.

  

  Flume
  • Party
  • Day
  • Best

• My parents were hippies.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Parents
  • Were
  • Hippies

• You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • You
  • Imagine
  • Something

• When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

  

  Beth Orton
  • Song
  • Worry

• Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.

  

  John Romaniello
  • Up
  • Good

• I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Water
  • Dark
  • Garden

• But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Wish

• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca