Sophocles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Do you dare deny my potency my kindness or forgiveness?
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Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
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A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
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I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
