Sophocles Quotes

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Love

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • High
  • Think
  • Reason

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • God
  • Night

• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • God
  • American

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • God
  • You
  • Thank God

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Done
  • Politics

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People
  • God
  • Rest

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • People
  • God
  • Relationship

• The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

  

  Lenny Wilkens
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Girl
  • Daughter
  • King

• After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • World
  • Movie
  • Walk

• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

  

  Sophocles
  • God
  • Reason
  • Gift