Sophocles Quotes
The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
Usher
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
LaToya London
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
Tara Brach
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. Priestley
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind .”
Ala Bashir
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles
