Sophocles Quotes

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

Sophocles

• Gratitude
• Gain
• Favours

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've got good speed off the edge.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Speed
  • Edge

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Effort
  • Safety

• I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Night
  • Rock
  • Revolution

• There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Inspiration
  • Creative
  • Process

• O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Vision

• Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

  

  J. D. Salinger

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real
  • Die
  • Simple

• Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • Broken
  • Daily
  • Drug

• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up

• In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebuscrescendi posuere modum.

  

  Lucan

• I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Freedom

• I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Life
  • House

• I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Culture
  • Forever
  • My Family

• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Dance
  • Fight
  • Witnesses

• They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

  

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
  • Help

• Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Men
  • Fear

• Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

  

  Sophocles
  • Gratitude
  • Gain
  • Favours