Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • School
  • Nature
  • High

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Thought

• I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Permanent

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Egoism

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Busy

• I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Together
  • Joy
  • Theatre

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Like
  • Film
  • Very

• Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Reach

• Time rolls his ceaseless course.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time

• And almost every one when age,Disease, or sorrows strike him,Inclines to think there is a God,Or something very like Him.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Age

• Why should I be my aunt,or me, or anyone?What similaritiesboots, hands, the family voiceI felt in my throat, or eventhe National Geographicand those awful hanging breastsheld us all togetheror made us all just one?

  

  Elizabeth Bishop
  • Family
  • Why
  • Aunt

• I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Done

• The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.

  

  David A. R. White
  • People
  • Time

• I'm a big Prada fan. I always think that they seem to fit me well.

  

  Jenny Packham

• I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

  

  Andres Nocioni
  • Player
  • Teammates
  • Improved

• Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca