Sophocles Quotes

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

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• All mankind love a lover.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Mankind
  • Lover

• The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Mistake
  • Environmental

• I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Hate
  • Jews
  • Lover

• The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True
  • Respect
  • Democracy

• My first fragrance as a kid was Tommy Girl. It was amazing. Wasn't it the thing to wear? And then I remember I stopped wearing it because it was literally like the whole classroom was filled with Tommy Girl.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Amazing

• If you don't come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don't come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Time
  • High
  • Teacher

• If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

  

  Clint Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

  

  John Chafee

• After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • True
  • Dream
  • Space

• We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • God
  • Ends
  • Strife

• Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Life
  • Dear
  • Binding

• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Sex
  • Pleasure
  • Lover

• Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Powerful

• Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

  

  Plato
  • Friendship
  • Youth
  • Intimacy

• The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Life is

• In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Inspectors
  • Inteelligence reports

• For me... it's the only life That I've ever known And love is only one... Fine star...away Even though the living Is sometimes laced with lies... It's alright... The feeling remains Even after the glitter fades

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Life
  • Love Is
  • Glitter

• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lover
  • Oath
  • Binding