1848 Seneca Quotes & Sayings

Peace produces a proper perspective. — Todd Stocker

But it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. — Marilynne Robinson

Now I'm heading home for a nooner, which is what I call having pancakes for lunch. — LIZ

I believe that all of us have a little bit of "crazy" in us, even if just a pinch. It could manifest out of extreme enthusiasm, foolish behavior or downright insanity. Aside from its legal concept, insanity or "crazy" is a personality trait, a neurotic emotional state that can surprisingly be beneficial to us in many ways
especially when it comes to creativity, increasing consciousness, as well as problem-solving. However, when your crazy outweighs your rationale, it is definitely time to seek professional help. — Terry A. O'Neal

As with God so with the Bible; just because our tradition tells us that the Bible says and means one thing or another, that does not excuse us from the challenging task of studying it afresh in the light of the best knowledge we have about its world and context, to see whether these things are indeed so. For me the dynamic of a commitment to Scripture is not "we believe the Bible, so there is nothing more to be learned," but rather "we believe the Bible, so we had better discover all the things in it to which our traditions, including our 'protestant' or 'evangelical' traditions, which have supposed themselves to be 'biblical' but are sometimes demonstrably not, have made us blind." And — N. T. Wright

or declaration of party fund raising. Unlike in the United States where fund raising is a completely transparent process and there is accountability to the last dollar - in India, party donations are not talked about, any corporation or individual — Shaili Chopra

Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk. It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies. — Al Aronowitz

Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical. — Aleister Crowley

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself. — Zach Galifianakis

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. — Oscar Wilde

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in. — Alan Shearer

There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger. — Libba Bray

I felt the cold splash of guilt and fear wash over me from the lie that I had cast into our lives in that moment, separating us, unaware of the wave of consequences that would inevitably carry me away from him - leaving, in its wake, a ripple. — L.D. Cedergreen

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation.
- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 — Elizabeth Cady Stanton