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.

  

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  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
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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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
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• The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.

  

  Ethan Hawke
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• Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Matter
  • Able

• For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

  

  Sophocles
  • Loves
  • Bearer
  • Tidings