In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily,… — Jean de Joinville Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I am honored to represent New York's 11th Congressional District in Congress, an institution founded on the Greek ideals of representative government. — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and… — Rita Wilson Copy Share Image
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence'… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I look at Playtone, the company that produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I call them my Playtoners. They are the kindest… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
