Sophocles Quotes
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Warren Spector
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Yossi Vardi
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Barry Jenkins
Everything I do now is a first.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Karen Katz
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C. S. Lewis
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W. H. Auden
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
