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

• No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Country
  • Lover
  • Discovering

• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • True

• I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Hero
  • Example
  • Musicians

• We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people when we were young.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Littles
  • Painter

• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Professional
  • Identity
  • Coffee

• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lover
  • Oath
  • Binding