Sophocles Quotes
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Sophocles
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
Rachel Joyce
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Nancy Johnson
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
Patrick Macnee
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
Patricia Highsmith
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
T. Boone Pickens
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
Patrick Roy
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I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.
David Farr
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead
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It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
Jillian Michaels
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I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brusher her hair, was her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.
Kimberly Michelle Pate
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
Walker Percy
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
Sophocles
