Sophocles Quotes

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sophocles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 496 BC - 406 BC

Topics

AgeManChildGrowing OldGrowing

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

Robert J. Sawyer

YouLookCountryPrettyUnitedMost

Sir Richard Branson is probably the best communicator ever. He was an inspiration for me - contrary to some reports, we've never done business together, although we did discuss an aviation venture very early on. I don't think easyJet competes with Virgin - we're in different areas.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

BusinessBestTogetherMeThink

The problem is that the same technological tools we use to thwart terrorists can also be used against the people whose job it is to stop them.

Ronen Bergman

JobPeopleToolsProblemStopSame

People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.

Lloyd Dorfman

HomeTravelPeopleMeTreatBecause

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Dominique de Villepin

RiseNobodyDenyFundamentalism

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

LiveIgnoranceBelieveI CanNow

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

Dory Previn

LiveFriendsYouLookHouseKind

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

WorldThinkConsciencePrisoner

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

CreditDareKnowSayWillEndure

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Ali MacGraw

GodThoughtLovedBetterAnimals

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

Alison Gopnik

TogetherThinkGroupIntelligent

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

William Gibson

TechnologyOpinionsFindPersonal

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