Sophocles Quotes

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• I love zoo sanctuaries.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • I Love
  • Zoo
  • Sanctuaries

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.

  

  Socrates
  • Know
  • Friend
  • Care

• Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Proud

• I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Women
  • Live
  • Night

• I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fashion

• The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Light
  • Spring
  • River

• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  

  Sophocles
  • Live
  • Proud
  • Nobly