I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
“What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna,"… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians,… — Fulcher of Chartres Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried… — Anonymous 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
“You ask perhaps if one should take the maid herself? Such a plan brings the greatest risk with it. In one case,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family;… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
