We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love.… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I… — John Maus Copy Share Image
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the… — David Frost Copy Share Image
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
