Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Soul

• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Down
  • Parade
  • Runway

• If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Chinese
  • Role

• A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Sound
  • Marketing

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Difficult
  • Kid
  • Arts

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Age
  • You
  • Emotions

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Electricity

• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Vote
  • Line

• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Canada

• Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Achieve

• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Women
  • More

• It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Service
  • Website

• Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Why

• As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

  

  Jodie Whittaker
  • Work
  • Focus

• People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute.

  

  Aaryn Gries
  • People
  • Good
  • Hate

• No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca