Greek Quotes · Page 2

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Letters today, Leaders tomorrow.

— Anonymous

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

— Zach Galifianakis

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.

— Patty Jenkins

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

— Plato

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Diogenes

My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.

— Natasia Demetriou

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

— Taylor Schilling

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,…

— Oliver Stone

The Greek economy is improving, which should benefit the banking sector.

— John Paulson

ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.

— Scott Michael Foster

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

— Patricia Neal

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch…

— Jon Katz

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…

— G. H. Hardy

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and…

— Eleanora Duse

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological…

— Neil Patrick Harris

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the…

— Edith Hamilton

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato_7.htmlixzz1bRaRiaaD

— Plato

Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the…

— Leonard Shlain

Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in…

— Noam Chomsky

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and…

— Lucas Papademos

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more…

— Richard M. Nixon

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have…

— Richard M. Weaver

If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind…

— Odysseas Elytis

“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) { Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,'…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived…

— Anonymous

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our…

— Sam Keen

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with…

— Barry B. Powell

Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German…

— Vladimir Putin

Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans…

— Torquil Campbell

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers…

— Jürgen Moltmann

One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the…

— Richard Mercer Dorson

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional…

— Robert Graves

From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion…

— Nesta Helen Webster