Euripides Quotes

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

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• I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Often

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• I get to meet different directors and different people.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • People
  • Different
  • Meet

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Enough
  • Old
  • Without

• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Long
  • Positive

• If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Search
  • Social Media

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People

• The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Professional

• Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.

  

  Kapil Dev

• My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Space
  • Place
  • Satellite

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Joy

• I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Star

• As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Believe
  • Humanity
  • Relationships

• There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

  

  Euripides
  • Joy
  • Waves
  • Harbor