Sophocles Quotes

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Sophocles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExcellenceWomanLuxuryHouseEver

You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.

Jerry Lewis

SelfishBetterYouBeingGoingGet

I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

Andris Nelsons

ThinkPersonEveryoneDifferentWays

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

John Chilcot

SlowBeenFoundDevicesMinistry

I just want to make sports safe for our kids.

Ann McKee

SportsWantSafeJustKidsOur

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Jeaniene Frost

DoneVampireSimilaritiesOriginal

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

Ron Livingston

HappyPeopleManagementProblemQuit

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Mary Schapiro

Do The Right ThingPressureFeelGo

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes

LawPityMotiveSeverity

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Coco Chanel

WomanDressLook

I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by.

Bruce Springsteen

GreatTimeManDedicationPeople

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Bridget Moynahan

MomThinkingWrongWantSingleUp

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

Pete Wentz

CreativePeopleTrainLos Angeles

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