#quen

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege too. I am not your slave. I serve Apollo. I don't need Creon to speak for me in public. So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption in your life, to the house you live in, those you live with- who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light! Soon, soon, you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate? What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo? That day you learn the truth about your marriage, the wedding-march that sang you into your halls, the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor! And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children. There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself and every word I've said. No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you. ↗

— Robert Fagles

#eloquence #incest #prophecy #prophet #sight

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. ↗

— Grace Jones

#accept #believe #complaining #consequences #decisions

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#all things #condition #consequences #deafness #did

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#climate #earth #earthquakes #frequent #ground

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it. ↗

— Al Lewis

#doing #find #get #love #something

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#could #frequency #i #internet #invest

A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't. ↗

— Alex D. Linz

#beginning #biking #could #course #down

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. ↗

— Jon Lord

#classical #classical music #effect #i #i love

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#case #certain #certain way #differently #emotional