Sophocles Quotes

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

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• I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Party

• I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Game
  • Night
  • Day

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Learn

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Now
  • November
  • June

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Effort
  • Devil

• Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Opinion
  • Summer

• These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Why
  • Mad

• Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Love
  • Friend

• We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

  

  Al Barr
  • Singing
  • Grateful
  • We Do

• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

  

  Gardner Murphy
  • Struggle
  • Relation
  • Curious

• Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Community
  • Fall
  • Fighting

• Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

  

  Sophocles
  • Blind
  • Relation
  • Profits