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Sophocles Quotes

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Light You Injustice Done Bright

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Society Free Battle Tradition Living

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

Great Golf Variety Course Continuity

Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.

Love Good Believe I Believe Off IQ

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

I Am People Selfish Thinking I Can

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Robyn Hitchcock

Good People Start End Questioning

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Travel Me Result You Group Lucky

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

People City Economy Connecting Vital

I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.

Joshua Ostrander

Life Writing My Life Point Going

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Music Age Day Think New Become

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

American Immigrant Writer Needs

LeBron James has always been the biggest one - I just love to watch him. I'm a big fan, and he's a big inspiration of mine.

Christian Pulisic

Love Inspiration Him Always Big

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

Excellence Training Serious Aspire

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