Sophocles Quotes
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
Maggie Rowe -
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
Vanilla Ice -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Harold Pinter -
I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
D'Angelo -
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Babe Ruth
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt -
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin -
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
Vagit Alekperov -
I always ignore money.
Damien Hirst -
As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.
Phil Lord -
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
Eliot Spitzer
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
V. S. Naipaul -
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.
Donald Miller -
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
C. S. Lewis -
Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
Robert H. Schuller -
There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.
Muhammad Ali -
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
Ben Moody Evanescence -
It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.
Rani Mukerji -
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca -
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
Sophocles