Sophocles Quotes

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

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• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • True
  • Funny
  • Feel

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Blessing
  • Holy
  • Sacred

• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Road
  • Through
  • Sacred

• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Passionate
  • Sacred
  • Feminine

• Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Geographic

• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Sickness
  • Bright

• As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Optimistic

• You know, I'm really not that bright.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Bright

• Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Truth

• As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and 'Wonder Woman' and 'Storm' and that stuff. But don't quiz me, because I'm not good at things like that.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Good
  • Book
  • Wonder

• Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

  

  Andrew Forrest

• Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Show

• Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Mind

• I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

  

  George Farquhar
  • Believe

• She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Success
  • Smile
  • Miss

• If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Ifs

• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  

  Carlo Wolff
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Writes

• It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Before
  • Mathematician
  • Physicist

• I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • I Think
  • Directors

• Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Corrupt
  • Open Hand

• My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
  • Something
  • Princess
  • Powers

• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sacred
  • Bright
  • Terrible Things