Sophocles Quotes

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

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• I think God gives you all good things at the same time.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • World
  • Never

• I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Heaven

• Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Together
  • Courage

• When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?

  

  Joanne Liu
  • People
  • Action
  • Focus

• Fox is fair and balanced.

  

  Alan Colmes

• You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

  

  Mario Andretti

• I think I was a born scientist.

  

  Ken Wilber

• American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Up
  • American
  • Age

• My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

  

  John Edward
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Life
  • Up
  • Food

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Passion

• After suffering pleurisy last year before the New Zealand tour the doctors didn't want to take any risks.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Suffering
  • Risk
  • Doctors

• Loved people are loving people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loving

• There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Pain

• I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Focus
  • I Believe
  • Give Back

• ...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Words
  • Way
  • Speaker

• The message coming out of this government session, beyond the prayers and hope, is that the government functions. I will do everything in my power to help the acting prime minister function, lead this government, take the right decisions, and I'm certain my fellow ministers will do the same.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Power
  • Help
  • Hope

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Breath

• God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • God
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  

  Sophocles
  • Knife
  • Mutter
  • Wise Doctor