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702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and… — Unknown Author
To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to… — E. Cobham Brewer
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,… — Kathleen Tessaro
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly… — Thomas Szasz
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind.… — Agnes Martin
Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for… — Horatius Bonar
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become… — Muhammad Asad
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. — Frank E. Gaebelein
The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could… — Frank E. Gaebelein
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream… — Angela Carter
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a… — Roland Barthes
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek… — Jay Leno
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that… — Jeff Daniels
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit... — Edith Hamilton
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over… — LeRoy Neiman
Id like to live in the Greek islands — Paul Wesley
The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. — Radovan Karadzic
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult… — Demetri Martin
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein

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