Sophocles Quotes

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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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.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• 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
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• 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
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Why

• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Son
  • Young Man

• Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Anything
  • Heartbreak

• We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Cool
  • Senior
  • Dinner

• And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Time
  • American
  • Interest

• Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

  

  Josie Loren
  • People
  • School
  • Girl

• There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Long
  • Knocked Down
  • Wronf

• 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
  • Confidence
  • Champion
  • Hearts

• One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

  

  Sophocles
  • Thinking
  • Speech
  • Unutterable

• People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • People
  • Taste
  • Okay

• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human
  • Bible
  • Affairs

• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Price
  • Affairs

• All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

  

  Sophocles
  • Cure
  • Affairs
  • Diseased