The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory” was… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at a woman was considered a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. This tradition still continues - throw an apple… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, the earth was personified as a mysterious goddess called Gaia. A cosmic, procreative womb who emerged out of the… — Kris Waldherr Copy Share Image
“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Don't you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?" "That pots were like people," Alex replied… — Julia Wills Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
“I like to stay a part of that stuff that don’t change. Actually, it’s not that difficult - people still love and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and… — Allan Bérubé Copy Share Image
“It is no wonder that historians trace the birth of Western civilization to these jewels of the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean seas.… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, Socrates was known to place a premium on knowledge. When an acquaintance visited the philosopher and began, ‘Do you… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go." Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“However, according to another aspect, “Thyme” comes from the Greek word “Thymon” which means courageous. Also, the word “Thymos” originally had the… — Evelyn Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to… — Livy Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
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