Sophocles Quotes
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Sophocles
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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Natasha Lyonne
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
Naomie Harris
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Dan Wheldon
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
Laura Carmichael
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There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
Gale Sayers
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When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
B. B. King
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!
Trenton Lee Stewart
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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Sophocles
