Sophocles Quotes

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

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• Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
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• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
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  • Small
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• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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  • Sound
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• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
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• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Up
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• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
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• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Good
  • Television

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Live
  • Want
  • Day

• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Friends

• I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Red
  • Snow

• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Latin

• If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.

  

  Winston Smith
  • Done
  • Point Of View

• Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

  

  William James
  • Moments
  • Forget
  • Strange

• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Spring
  • Existence
  • Deeds

• All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

  

  Anne Reeve Aldrich
  • Art
  • Hands
  • Well

• If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

  

  Sophocles
  • Well
  • Deeds
  • Begins