Sophocles Quotes
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
Sophocles
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
Olivier Theyskens
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
Dana Perino
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
Carine Roitfeld
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
Samuel L. Jackson
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
Lady Gregory
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
M. H. Abrams
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
Samuel Beckett
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Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
Hafez
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All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
David Archuleta
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
Pope Francis
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It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
Jenny Lewis
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
Sophocles