G Quotes
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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.”
“Greek thought, as Russell states, is full of fate. It can, of course, be argued that these sentiments are the expressions of an archaic culture or world view which died two thousand years ago, prolonged through the medieval epoch because of ignorance of the natural universe, and that we know better now. In one sense this is true, but one of the more important and disturbing insights of depth psychology is the revelation that the mythic and undifferentiated consciousness of our ancestors, which animated the natural world with images of gods and daimones, does not belong to chronological history alone. It also belongs to the psyche of modern man, and represents a stratum which, although layered over by increasing consciousness and the hyper-rationality of the last two centuries, is as potent as it was two millennia or even ten millennia ago.”
Source: The Astrology of Fate
“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”
“Greeks and foreigners lived in parallel universes separated by language and custom. Greeks started work at seven, foreigners at nine. Greeks finished at three and came home for lunch. Greeks went to bed for the afternoon and got up for coffee when the foreigners were having drinks. Greeks went out to dinner when the foreigners were coming out of the taverna to go home to bed.”
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth. Enlightenment and civilization did not originate in europe, they were born of the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.”
“Green and black go well together, dont they?”
“Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.”
“Green Arrow is the embodiment of what one person can do. It’s a theme that comes up repeatedly in this book, one that explains why this powerless archer with a chip on his shoulder appeals to so many people. He wasn’t born of the heartbreaking tragedy of a Batman, he didn’t fall from the stars to deliver humanity from evil, nor is his origin wrapped in the fabric of Greek myths and legends. He is a human character that struggles with work, love, loss, darkness, death, and the weight of his own sins. Like the rest of us humans, Green Arrow is flawed, and a perpetually moving target.”
Source: Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow
“Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.”
“GREEN BIRD
You cloth men with your feathers and your love like the sea. Your eyes like a sword piercing every inch of my heart. My pen fell when I had to look at them the fourth time.
Oh mother love, the seamstress of destiny
The designer of hearts
Your offsprings are like stars beyond the reach of men. They glow and glitters in grace.
Great bird of the forest.
Poem by Victor Vote for Olatunbosun Victoria Olayemi
©️2021 by VVF”
“Green birdflower
Meaning: My heart flees
Crotalaria cunninghamii | Mid to western states
Widespread on sandy soils in mulga communities and on sand dunes, this shrub bears soft hairs on thick and pithy branches. The flower resembles a bird attached by its beak to the central stalk of the flower head; yellow-green, streaked with fine purple lines. Blooms in winter and spring. Pollinated by large bees, and birds.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.”
“Green calm below, blue quietness above.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.”
“Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.”
“Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.”
“Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good.”
“Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.”
“Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.”
“Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!”
“Green exercise improves psychological health.”
“Green fingers are better than gold.”
Source: Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold
“Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.”
“Green forests and hills
Rolling across the landscape
Fair Albion Shines”
Source: Austin Macauley Publishers The Last Words of Albion.
“Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.”
“Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“Green grass grows where dry desert ends.”
“Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.”
“Green,” he muttered.
“What do you mean?”
"You're turning green, Miss Hernandez."
Feeling insulted, she growled, "What are you talking about? I'm not the Incredible Hulk!"
Chuckling, he shook his head. "No, you're not, thank goodness. But you're green. Green and jealous.”
Source: It's Not Just Semantics
“Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.”
“Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.”
“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.”
Source: Orlando
“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. The shade of green Orlando now saw spoilt his rhyme and split his metre.”
Source: Orlando
“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. The shade of green Orlando now saw spoilt his rhyme and split his metre. Moreover, nature has tricks of her own. Once look out of a window at bees among flowers, at a yawning dog, at the sun setting, once think "how many more suns shall I see set," etc., etc. (the thought is too well known to be worth writing out) and one drops the pen, takes one's cloak, strides out of the room, and catches one's foot on a painted chest as one does so. For Orlando was a trifle clumsy.”
Source: Orlando
“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.”
“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.”
Source: Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
“Green is a soothing color, isn’t it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is — it is said to send you a little mad — not that I’m casting aspersions . . .”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“Green is more valuable and beautiful, and a positive person notices it everywhere. You will continue to grow as long as your thoughts are green.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!”
“Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.”
“Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.”
“Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.”
“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
“Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.”
“Green Lantern: "What are your powers anyway? You can't fly."
Batman: "No."
Green Lantern: "Super-strength?"
Batman: "No."
Green Lantern: "Hold on a second... You're not just some guy in a bat costume, are you? Are you freaking kidding me?!”
Source: Justice League, Volume 1: Origin
“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”
Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir