Greek Sophist Quotes & Sayings

From where in hell did he come from?
Where have you been all this time? — Karen Swart

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity. — Zicheng Hong

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. — Emil Cioran

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at. — Barbara Kingsolver

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples ... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested. — Pope Benedict XVI

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected. — Plato

I never regretted what I turned down. — Angela Lansbury

Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour. — Phyllis Diller

Music is my balance ... center of my life. — Mandy Patinkin

The cross is proof that God loves sinners. — Jared C. Wilson

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. — Josiah Gilbert Holland