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“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Firsts War Country Sometimes States Nations Talking Produce Years Ago Greek Historian Triggers Mixing Great Society

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'”

Mean Hard Ancient Greek Catharsis Ancient Greek Stools

Author:Tim Sandlin

“I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.”

Stories Feelings Happened Terrible Things Happen Intense Naked Greek Replaced Terrible Things Bible Stories Intense Feelings

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.”

Knows Hands Age Form Purpose Black Attitude Middle Stones Greek Melancholy Peculiar Revealing Middle Ages Gothic Calligraphy

Author:Victor Hugo

“President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”

Giving Writing Hands President Arms Greek Latin Garfield Ambidextrous

Author:Jay Leno

“Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.”

Ifs Way Break Asking Greek Pregnant

Author:Demetri Martin

“When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.”

Knows Writing Wanted Guy Scripts Casts Nervous Greek Auditions This Guy That Guy

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.”

Knows Different Used Acting Tradition Performances Theater East Greek Mask Capture Dell

Author:Andy Serkis

“All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.”

Stuff Myth Greek Superhero Capes Tights Greek Myth Greek God

Author:Louis Leterrier

“Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.”

“I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.”

People Way Guy Fighting Talking Talent Victory Eras Greek Empires Lions Arena Roman Empire Smack Roman Civilization Smack Talk

Author:J. B. Smoove

“The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.”

Trying Mean Prove Tests Temptation Greek

Author:Selwyn Hughes

“Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.”

People Looks Real Dream Rooms Talking Destiny Laughing Four Thousand Eating Let Me Drinking Greek Sixty Powerless Eighty Tourists Real Power Sleepers Bombay

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."”

Might Honest Ignorance Greek Distinction Confession Agnostic Inquiry Disbelief Unbelief

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.”

Men Matter Names Share He Man Idiot Greek Our Words

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.”

Ifs Way Matter Use Pages Appreciate Metaphor Sentences Greek Dictionary Hebrew Etymology

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".”

“Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.”

Knows Age Father Black Church Race Century Talent Late Racism Capitalism Slavery Greek Justify Rome Pope Emperor Back In The Day Church Fathers

Author:Immortal Technique

“I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.”

People Men Firsts Said Christian Nations White Christianity Brother Europe Claims Discussion Greek Empires White Man Brothers And Sisters Armenians Christian Nation Byzantine

Author:Immortal Technique

“In the Greek way of dealing with alchemy, which was earth, air, fire and water, these were the objective qualities. Within the objective qualities - things of earth, air, fire and water - are our subjective experiences of hot, cold, dry, and moist.”

Way Earth Water Quality Fire Air Cold Hot Objectives Greek Dry Subjective Alchemy

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you”

Ifs Knows Self Country Dream Body Used Universe Levels Consciousness Duty Personality Truth Is Ego Definitions Deeper Your Body Greek Lap Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

Should War States House Peace Cases Citizens Soldier Conservative Socialism Greek Citizenship Disarming Free State

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.”

Philosophy Religion Moral Genuine Doctrine Rational Greek Containing Moral Philosophy Epicurean Greece And Rome

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.”

People Ifs Wells Might Written Greek Copies Headlines

Book:Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork

Source: Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork

“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.”

“In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.”

Way Different Helping Use Shows Turns Wonder Cases Study Objects Draws Mirrors Delight Various Versions Greek Scholar Lenses Translations Hebrew Microscopes Puzzled

Author:Amy Carmichael

“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'”

Said Bigs Life Is College Asking Starting Philosopher Greek Good Life Worth Living Starting Point Big Questions Greek Philosopher Life Is Not Worth Living Unexamined Life

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.”

Should Body Essence Dresses Greek

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.”

Notion Greek Latin

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.”

People Way Has Beens Government Past Failing Treats Very Good Greek

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.”

Wells Ideas Tragedy Greek Classic Intrigued Chorus Greek Tragedy Greek Chorus

Author:Joseph Boyden

“We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.”

Knows Mean Comedy Please Tragedy Greek Happy Endings

Author:Eric Drooker

“Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.”

Way Want Reading Sound Cases Sacrifice Honest Style Involved Concerned Pressure Sentences Being Honest Greek Reviews Translations No Pressure

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.”

Should Problem Common Democracy Movement Crosses Strategy Borders Greek Refugee Launching

Author:Yanis Varoufakis

“Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.”

Ifs Want Heart Country Hate Strong Example Europe Setting Settings Greek Germany Bitterness

Author:Yanis Varoufakis

“The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.”

Different Church Western Greek Empires Spokes Latin Emphasis Eastern Roman Empire

Author:Justo L. Gonzalez

“It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.”

Giving Should Believe Mean Doe Might Millions Blame Ridiculous Greek Regulation Refuge Greece Procedures Asylums Migrants Dublin

Author:Paolo Gentiloni

“I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.”

Writing Littles Ideas Running Together America Actors Stuff Bits Answers Little Bit Tragedy Western Scripts Greek Working Together Dna Cleaners Brad Greek Tragedy Running Out Of Time

Author:Donald Sutherland

“I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.”

People Thinking Needs Believe States United United States Dignity Greek Orthodox Pope Recognizing Attacking Greek Orthodox

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.”

Want Firsts Mean Persons Bigs Ego Greek Bus Entity Greece First Person Pronouns

Author:Robert Thurman

“Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.”

Abuse Tales Greek Goddess Olympus Gods And Goddesses Greek God

Author:Alexander Chee

“The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'”

Thinking Hands Happens Able Destiny Fate Concepts Theater Notion Greek Storyteller Fate And Destiny

Author:Cate Blanchett

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”

Men Wife Food Tables Dinner Greek Good Wife

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“I honestly just love Greek yogurt and honey, and berries, and some KIND granola or something because that's always something that I'm down to eat. But everything else, like anything savory just has to be ordered really last minute because I never know.”

Knows Kind Lasts Minutes Honestly Greek Honey Berries Last Minute Yogurt Savory Granola Greek Yogurt

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. There is a partly biological basis for this identification. The 'nature' of woman may be conceptualised in the early Greek sense of a force or a power, in its turn shaped by forces outside it, rather than in terms of some set of properties.”

May Important Turns Force Term Existence Doubt Universal Bases Property Deny Greek No Doubt Shifting Identification

Author:Alison Assiter

“My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.”

“Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.”

“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.”

World Moving Science Force Nature This World Greek Forces Of Nature Save Nature

Author:Lord Acton

“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.”