Sophocles Quotes

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

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• One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Fashion

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Strong

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• I am forever learning and changing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Changing

• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mean
  • Morality
  • Paradox

• In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Up
  • Gown
  • Arrayed

• The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Chinese

• My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Husband

• How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Together
  • Mad
  • Solitude

• Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

  

  Sophocles
  • Mad
  • Destroy
  • Jupiter