Sophocles Quotes

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

Sophocles

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• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Justice
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Truth
  • Comedy
  • Chaos

• I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • House
  • Community
  • White

• I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • You
  • Look
  • I Can

• We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • End

• People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • America
  • Joy

• I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Different
  • History
  • Unique

• What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Night
  • Desire

• The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

  Charles B. Rangel

• The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Believe
  • Women
  • War

• People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Done

• I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

  

  David Duchovny

• We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Help
  • Support
  • Risk

• Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

  

  Marco Zanini

• I'm really rubbish with technology; I'm super backward! I think I got a mobile phone last out of all my friends. I really worried about people being able to get hold of me at any time - I really hated that idea.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Today
  • Change
  • Serious

• Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • American
  • House
  • Christian

• Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Want
  • Matter
  • Achieve

• I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Wonder

• The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Story
  • Memory
  • Fiction

• Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

  

  Sophocles
  • Liar
  • Resolve
  • Afterthought