Sophocles Quotes
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Quotes to Explore
-
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
-
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
-
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
-
I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
-
My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
-
I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
-
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
-
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
-
Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
-
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
-
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
-
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
-
Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
-
Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
-
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
-
Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
-
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
-
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
-
O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
-
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
-
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
-
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
-
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
