Sophocles Quotes
We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.Sophocles
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
Malcolm Gets -
It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Jackie Chan -
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren Ellis
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
Florence Nightingale -
In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
Jack Keane -
My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
Irina Shayk -
A secret is a secret in my mind.
Daniel Craig -
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
Daniel Barenboim -
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Barbara Olson
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
Walter Salles -
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray -
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica McKellar -
I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
Laura Fraser -
I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
R. L. Stine
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It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make things of those things.
Al Jaffee -
My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.
Paul S. Kemp -
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo -
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Candice Millard -
People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees -
We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.
Sophocles