The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens.… — Jonathan Brown Copy Share Image
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But… — Jostein Gaarder 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
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides 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 took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned… — Pericles Copy Share Image
