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 -
I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis -
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 -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
Flavor Flav -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells -
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips -
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis -
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
Damien Chazelle -
I can never find the right bras.
Kate Upton -
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra -
I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
Zarin Mehta
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Auguste Renoir -
The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.
David Hume -
Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we.
Phil Jackson -
When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
William Sanderson -
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles