I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions. — Rita Wilson Copy Share Image
Pre-workout I will have 1 cup of oatmeal and post-workout I will make a Greek yogurt parfait. — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband,… — Kiran Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
