Sophocles Quotes

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Live
  • Lost

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Snow

• There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Important
  • Support

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Stock
  • Now

• Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Face
  • Old

• Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Working

• Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Chance
  • Sorry
  • Miracle

• Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Chance

• Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Failure
  • Record

• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

  

  Sophocles
  • Chance
  • Helps