Sophocles Quote

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Self-discovery

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

• Sacred

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

• Time
• Thinking

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Antisthenes

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

• Fear

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Virgil

• Present

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Plato

• Suffering
• Injustice

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Gilda Radner

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

• Soul

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Alberto Giacometti

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Oscar de la Renta

I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.

Ewan McGregor

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot