The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy. — Otto E. Neugebauer 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
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 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
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen -… — Ibn Khaldun 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
For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and… — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
“I remembered Daemon's feather soft kisses on my cheek, and I remembered the clouds parting and the sun shining on a cold… — Rebecca Boucher Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart,… — Laurell K. Hamilton 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
Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! — Deborah Wiles Copy Share Image
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. — Homer 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
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image