Sophocles Quotes

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
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• I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
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• And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
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• Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

  

  Andy Roddick
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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
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• The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

  

  Anthony Daniels
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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
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• They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
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• There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Man
  • Realize
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• You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Tomorrow
  • Whole

• Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

  

  Confucius
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  • Right
  • Loves

• He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Death
  • Heaven
  • Learned

• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Fate
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• One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Understanding

• For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

  

  Sophocles
  • Loves
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  • Tidings