Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
It's not just letters, parties and good times. It is a feeling that will never leave you as long as you live.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley Copy Share Image
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Zeus split the man and woman apart, fearing it's power, but obligating the man and woman on an everlasting quest to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
