Sophocles Quotes
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
-
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
-
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-
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
-
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
-
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
-
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
Sophocles
-
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
-
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
-
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?
Hermann Hesse
-
I share the concerns of many Iraqis about the lack of consensus on the constitution.
Amr Moussa
