Sophocles Quotes
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.Sophocles
Quotes to Explore
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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.
T. Boone Pickens -
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.
E. M. Forster -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
Carly Fiorina -
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.
Taylor Swift -
I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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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.
Sam Kean -
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Frances McDormand -
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
Caitlin Moran -
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
Wallace Shawn
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
Vera Wang -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
Fetty Wap -
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.
Eavan Boland -
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.
Vin Diesel
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
J. Cole -
I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.
Genesis Rodriguez -
There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.
Barry Long -
Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
Patricia Clarkson -
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles