Sophocles Quotes

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

Sophocles

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• When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Man
  • Myself

• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Him

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Man
  • Down

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
  • History
  • Man
  • Challenge

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • True
  • Man
  • True Man

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Trade

• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Expectation