Sophocles Quotes

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Producer

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Success

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • World
  • Day
  • Better

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Improve

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• 387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Believe

• I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Worry

• Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Risk

• Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Belief
  • Media
  • Innocence

• The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Science
  • Politics

• A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Deals