Sophocles Quotes
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
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I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
N. K. Jemisin
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Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
Mother Teresa
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
Maya Angelou
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles