Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • City
  • Always
  • New York

• My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Talent

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Success
  • Contribution
  • Offended

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • You
  • Said

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Role

• I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Star
  • Never
  • Actor

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Idea
  • Creativity

• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • High
  • Friendship

• Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Words

• The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • American
  • Society
  • Fire

• I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.

  

  Charli XCX

• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Man
  • Media
  • Creation

• Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

  

  Chet Atkins
  • People

• Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Men

• I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

  

  Andra Day
  • Time
  • Long
  • History

• If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Black
  • Practice
  • Administration

• When we are filming, I can concentrate very quickly, but it does tire me out. It throws me into such a state! A trance-like state. So, what I need is either a trick for a calm type of trance or a sleepwalking trick.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • State
  • Concentrate
  • Tire

• I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

  

  Denis Leary
  • Together
  • Brain

• For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

  

  John Dryden
  • God
  • Mind
  • Design

• He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca