Sophocles Quotes

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Same

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • World
  • Stop
  • See

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.

  

  Fleur East
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Big

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Day

• So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

  

  Anna Louise Strong
  • World
  • Brother
  • Chinese

• A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure that the slaves were freed or John Kennedy bringing civil rights, or the first one I wrote about, George Washington trying to stop the British from invading and ending this country before it even began. Those were turning points where, if you had not had a president stepping up to the plate, if there wasn't a story like that, we would not be here.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Country
  • Moments
  • President

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Taken

• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

  

  Sophocles
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Rules