Power From Antigone Quotes & Sayings

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' — Rick Warren

That's not going to happen, because I love you. If anyone's getting their heart broken here, it's me. Not you. — Wendy Higgins

War ... is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing. — Dana Kramer-Rolls

I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that. — Richard Eyre

Are you Jesus in the flesh, a shining light to others? - Georgeanne Falstrom — Gary Chapman

Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the way back to Antigone, and that whatever speaks the truth of our hearts can only make us stronger. Can only give us the power to counter the hate and bigotry and heal this addled world.
Just remember: You are not alone. — Paul Monette

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. — Elmore Leonard

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. — Luke Evans

What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough. — Juliana Spahr

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker. — Dan Rather

I don't care what it's called. I just want to be with her at the end. I'm not giving up. Meghan, I'll be with you soon. Please, wait for me. — Julie Kagawa

Can I have my knife back?' Meaning, can I have my knife back. I don't care whether this man seems like he only goes after age appropriate penis; I won't be taking any chances. And I won't be going any farther thank the juvie center parking lot with him either. I put the run in runaway. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

The person that works the hardest wins. — Will Smith

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters. — Evelyn Waugh