Abyss Quote by Mikis Theodorakis Download Open image “The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss.” — Mikis Theodorakis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abyss Been Greeks Towards
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a… — Anonymous Copy Share