Sophocles Quotes
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
T.I.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
Larry Hogan
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
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I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
Mike Tyson
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One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
Sophocles
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
Rudyard Kipling
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Alice Duer Miller
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Love has the power to cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
Henry Ward Beecher