Sophocles Quotes

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Me
  • Finish
  • University

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Work
  • Society
  • Best

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Situation

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Food
  • Progress
  • Late

• The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Power
  • Weird

• Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Time

• Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Law
  • Community

• Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Fact
  • Intellect
  • Turn

• None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Control

• After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Stage
  • Hotel
  • Psyched

• An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • World
  • Men
  • Soul

• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Body
  • Burn

• Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

  

  Sophocles
  • Heaven
  • Zeus
  • Bear Up