Sophocles Quotes

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Sophocles

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• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Most
  • Go

• I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Truth

• My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Uncle

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Women
  • She
  • Powerful

• Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Space
  • Presence

• Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Doe

• How dare you make my life a felony.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Felony

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Love Is

• A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

  

  Scott Pruett
  • Darkness
  • Realize
  • Listeners

• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  

  Sophocles
  • Darkness
  • Ashamed
  • Disgrace