Sophocles Quotes
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Omar Bongo
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
Victoria Wood
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
Dan Jenkins
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
Camilo Villegas
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
Kaitlin Doubleday
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
Orville Redenbacher
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J Mascis
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
Victor LaValle
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
Sam Heughan
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
Gabriel Macht
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Plato
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
Sophocles