Sophocles Quotes
What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.Sophocles
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias -
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
Camilla Belle -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
Tammy Duckworth -
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie -
The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
Jack O'Brien -
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
Pat Robertson -
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
Otto Dix -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
Lakshmi Mittal -
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.
Yvonne Orji -
Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.
Nathan Fillion -
There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.
Karl Lagerfeld -
What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
Sophocles