Sophocles Quotes

The happiest life is to be without thought.

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• Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Help

• There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Glamorous

• The lack of work destroys people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Work
  • Destroys

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
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• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Live
  • Wonderful

• These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Fields
  • Pioneers
  • Antidepressants

• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Real

• The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • War
  • Risk

• I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Done
  • Blood
  • Result

• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

  

  William Manchester
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Heroism

• Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Shadows

• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

  

  Patrick Ness
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  • Trying
  • Heart

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Fun
  • Actor
  • Made-up Situation

• The happiest life is to be without thought.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life is
  • Happiest