Sophocles Quotes

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestPastBorn

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Jimmy Wales

WorldWorryCensorshipManyAbout

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

Ann Nocenti

DownInternmentUpTouristLocked Up

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

Amy Klobuchar

HealthCompetitionBelieveBetter

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

Robin Sloan

TechnologyTogetherAlwaysBeen

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.

Michael Sheen

PeopleDoingYouLightsWatching

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Johnny Gimble

BusinessMusicChanceAdviceYou

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

Sebastian Coe

InspirationalLeadershipRespect

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

IntelligenceThinkPoliticalAnalytic

Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.

Nick Sagan

SpaceSurvivalPowerfulGenuineFilm

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

Niki Lauda

GivingGiving UpUpSomething

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Marilyn vos Savant

FeelYouFallKnowHeadYour

You have seen cricketers who are not god-gifted, but even then, they have gone far. That's because of the passion.

MS Dhoni

PassionYouGoneSeenBecauseFar

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