I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a life without books. Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them,… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
“ Laurel: Hello, ever hear of the Olympics? Holly: Or the Panathenaia? Laurel: Sand courts were everywhere back then. Ancient Greeks wrestled… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Tulips, I thought, staring at the jumble of letters before me. Had the ancient Greeks known them under a different name, if… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“And horse-stealing,” said the Water Rat, adding his mite. “And impersonating a washerwoman, and defrauding the rails, and horse-stealing—or did I say… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice, they also… — Henry Phillips Copy Share Image
“A lesson I learned from this ancient [Greek] culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense… — Kyle Eschenroeder Copy Share Image
“Greek women were not allowed to be: free and untamed. In fact, Artemis is a bit of a paradox. On the one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“The Scots studied the past to understand the present, and of course improve it. Like the ancient Greeks and the Chinese, they… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Religious pluralism is a popular belief in Western culture. At first it sounds very inclusive, but it is really just as exclusive… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The pen didn’t look like much, just a regular cheap ballpoint, but when Percy uncapped it, it grew into a glowing bronze… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'" "So money has value to… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty 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
“Zoe—" I said. "Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my… — Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse Copy Share Image
“The American experiment was based on the emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century of a fresh new possibility in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“On May 21, 1941, Camp de Schirmeck, Natzweiler-Struthof, located 31 miles southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges Mountains, was opened as the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image