Ancient greek Quote by Julia Vickers

Fundamentally, the world is not that sophisticated. A lot of it is very crude, cruel, and barbaric.

— Rick Owens

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

— John Major

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts…

— Tom Chatfield

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks…

— Simon Van Booy

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

— George Lloyd

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

— Johannes Stark

“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.”

— Michel Houellebecq

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…

— LeRoy Neiman

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we…

— Colin Quinn

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice…

— Tim O'Reilly

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

— Ruth Ozeki