Euripides Quotes

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Lassie

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Women
  • Children
  • Own

• I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Quiet

• My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Mother

• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Substitute

• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Ideas

• I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Hurt

• My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Goal
  • Deal
  • Strikeouts

• Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Facts
  • Consumer
  • Fraud

• Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Earth
  • Green

• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Rich

• And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blow
  • Losing
  • Stupidity

• The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

  

  George Eliot
  • Family
  • Wit
  • Strangers

• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Science
  • Gods
  • Killed

• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  

  Euripides
  • Wit
  • Common Sense
  • Phophet