I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal… — Carly Patterson Copy Share Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“. . . a stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Do people even look at one another?" "Not really. Everything that matters is on your screen. There's an agenda that rearranges itself.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money.… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it's inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity.… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won… — Abhinav Bindra Copy Share Image
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home… — John Addington Symonds Copy Share Image
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time.… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
