Seneca Phaedra Quotes

#1. I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Tim Ward

#2. I dug in my heels and was unreasonable, and got rewarded for it. (Definitely adding that to the coffee mug slogan bin.)

Felicia Day

#3. O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#4. In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Time flies on fickle wings

Seneca.

#6. I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Gabriela Mistral

#7. One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.

Seneca.

#8. As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

Catherine Hardwicke

#9. When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

Rick Barry

#10. Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

Dorothy Parker

#11. The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Byron White

#12. Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour
gone is followed by a worse one.

Seneca.

#13. If you want to keep a secret, never share it.

Seneca.

#14. I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.

Seneca.

#15. Am I going to be known by the car I travel in or by the path I pave and walk on?

Amit Abraham

#16. I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

Ansel Elgort

#17. Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.

Seneca.