Sophocles Quotes
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.Sophocles
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday -
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
Vijay Mallya -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
J. D. Souther -
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
Zoe Saldana
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
Imani Hakim -
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland -
I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
Salma Hayek -
At least I can say that I'm honest.
Adam Lambert -
I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
Wayne Rogers -
I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
Hanya Yanagihara
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
Rand Paul -
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade -
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
Madeleine Albright -
I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
Walt Disney -
We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
Vasily Grossman -
I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
Jessica Chastain
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A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.
Eef Barzelay -
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
Gary Oldman -
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
Sophocles