Sophocles Quotes

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Game
  • Turn

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Know
  • Cells
  • Genes

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Different
  • Emotions

• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Long
  • Want
  • Legacy

• No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Alone

• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Artists
  • Equal
  • Themselves

• It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

  

  Wade Davis
  • World
  • Realize
  • Extinction

• TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Theater

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Judge
  • Medical
  • Degree

• I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Money
  • Band
  • Understand

• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Bed
  • Rocks
  • Spread

• We woke up when we heard the rain, but we didn't think there was any danger. Then this big oak tree fell on the tent.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Rain
  • Danger
  • Woke Up

• Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

  

  Allen Tate
  • City
  • League
  • Struck

• All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

  

  Sophocles
  • Danger
  • Lives
  • Rocks