Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“One group of huge men from Congo and Ghana yelled insults at the beasts from the top of their lungs. They brandished… — Angela Orlowski-Peart 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
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks," Bowman said, echoing his response to the Munich terror, "believed the Olympic arena so sacred they stopped their wars… — Kenny Moore 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years… — Christopher Dunn Copy Share Image
“There have been ancient ships found with some almost unbelievable planking styles that helped make the ship structurally sound, lighter, and even… — Ken Ham 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
“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
“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
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric.” — Julia Vickers Copy Share Image
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“I was too shocked to register that he’d just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I’d understood him perfectly.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
