Sophocles Quotes

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

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• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
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• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
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• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

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• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
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• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
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• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  

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• God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

  

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• There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
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• Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
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• Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Testing
  • Deed