Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“It was the Greeks who coined the term “Amazon.” The word literally means “without breast.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara Copy Share Image
“I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to… — Origen Copy Share Image
“He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?" — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
