Sophocles Quotes

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Ideas
  • Resistance

• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Game
  • Now
  • Resistance

• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Small
  • Resistance

• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Energy

• I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • House
  • City
  • River

• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Political
  • Growing
  • Lost

• EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Trying
  • Resistance

• A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Moon
  • Tears
  • Rivers

• I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Rivers

• The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Path
  • Resistance

• Out of resistance comes strength.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strength
  • Resistance

• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Resistance

• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Dream
  • Ambition
  • River

• Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Pray
  • Resistance
  • Miracles

• The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Tears
  • River

• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Resistance
  • Germany
  • Stopping

• The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Path
  • Motivational

• I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Boy
  • Resistance
  • Promises

• Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • United States
  • Rivers
  • Manipulated

• For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

  

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
  • Problems
  • Historian
  • World War II

• In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Literature

• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  

  Sophocles
  • Resistance
  • Rivers
  • Branches