To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat. — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.… — Thomas R. Martin Copy Share Image
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I am also integration minister and speak with many refugees. When I ask if they came with the goal of living in… — Sebastian Kurz 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
The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
