Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. — Patricia Neal Copy Share Image
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us." — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16).… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
