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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: roman
Birth: 5 BC - 65 AD

Topics

Truth Happy Be Happy Lying Outside

Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.

Joel Robuchon

Slow You Down Creating Top Always

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Robert Smithson

Words Mental Things Processes

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

Sonya Hartnett

Science Broken Rules I Can Will Lit

I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

Rodney Atkins

Time People Think Worth Want Touch

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

Rose McIver

Work Love Time Not Knowing New Know

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Rupert Sheldrake

Position Because Would Uncertain

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.

Martin O'Malley

Food Anger You Create Economy Low

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Mike Krzyzewski

Truth People Truth Is Decisions Keep

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

Liz Murray

Think You Know Said Something Able

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Jonathan Ames

People Me Perception Shy More Than

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

Chris Zylka

Work Character Me You Back Mentor

I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?

Cory Lidle

Win Go Cry Want Two Apartment