Sophocles Quotes

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

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• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Known
  • Destroying

• We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • American
  • Technology
  • China

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Inside
  • Capable

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Feel

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Nice

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • You

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Freedom
  • Popular
  • Bring

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

  

  Bob Iger

• In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

  

  Leslie Charteris
  • Immigration

• I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • People
  • God

• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Law

• My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."

  

  Mike Mignola
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Literature

• Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Balanced