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

• The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Audience
  • Performances

• 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

• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Good
  • Worst
  • Good Taste

• Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Kind

• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  

  William Empson
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Devil

• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Light
  • Evil

• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Death
  • Darkness

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

  

  Sophocles
  • Darkness
  • Ashamed
  • Disgrace