And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare 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
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens. — Giannis Antetokounmpo 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
“. . . 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
The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there.… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. — Camille Paglia 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
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to… — Alton Brown 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
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“debatable today, as the structure could house the entire population of Athens, but could do nothing to protect their resources or withstand… — Tom Simek Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison 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
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Athens, it's not just a trip down memory lane; there's some surprise. I always meet somebody new,… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field,… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the… — Robert South 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
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war… — Max McKeown 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
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic… — George Michael Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
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
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have… — Laure Manaudou Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
