Sappho Quotes

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Know
  • End
  • Hurts

• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Revolution
  • Create
  • Tool

• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Band
  • Star
  • Key

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Gratitude

• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• My baby ohhhCome take control, just grab a holdOf my body and mind; soon we'll be making itHoney, oh we're feeling fineYou're my medicine. Open up and let me in.Darling, you're so great;I can't wait for you to operate.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Envy

• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz

• To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Rise
  • Ten

• Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Good
  • Family
  • Home

• It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

  

  Max Frisch

• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

  

  Sappho
  • Sleep
  • Moon
  • Midnight