Euripides Quotes
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
-
There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
-
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
-
I've directed independent film.
-
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
-
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
-
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
-
In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
-
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
-
I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
-
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
-
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
-
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
-
I have never had personal debt and never will.
-
I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
-
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
-
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
-
I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere.
-
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.
-
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
