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“What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?”

Ifs Heart Christ Insight Greek Godly Commentary

“The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It's the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.”

Feels Two Self Moments Seems Eye Moving Time Loses Clock Greek Timeless Participation Feeding Tao Motherly

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.”

Ifs Giving Use Wisdom Divine Greek Justify Discontent

Author:Mary Fairfax

“The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.”

Men Wells Made Christian Feminism Logic Western Males Feminist Greek Arena Exclusion

Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.”

Easy Simple White Crazy Healthy Cooks Greek Breasts Eggs Chickens Vegetables Schedules Salad Simple Things Powder Curry Omelets Roast Chicken

Author:Sasha Cohen

“In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.”

Men World Should Humans Art Real Age Form Used Purpose Given Conditions Skills Photography Ideals Photographer Greek Fulfilled Improving

Author:David Hurn

“The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"”

Ifs Men Spirit Heaven Christ Water Born Differences Church Sin Blood Holy Jew Saved Kingdoms Greek Holy Spirit Sacraments Kingdom Of God Baptism Born Again Kingdom Of Heaven Redeemed

Author:Ambrose

“Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.”

Source: Challenge For The Actor

“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.”

“There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.”

World Has Beens Two Political Religious Lines Progress Modern This World Development Institutions Former Greek Latter Hinduism Political Institutions

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”

Source: America

“But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself spiritually or rationally destitute or retarded when this corrupts the whole quality of the culture that we all together need and depend on? If anyone wants a cloistered and closed-minded life, an anti-aristic life, let him either go off and live among the wolves-or else join the community of like-minded idiots that (alas) compose and define the basic terms of modern society.”

“Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'”

Men Said War Shows Humanity Order Evil Forget Produce Dignity Philosopher Greek Wicked Antiwar Valor Wicked Man

Book:Perpetual Peace

Source: Perpetual Peace

“Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.”

Men World Children Poor Existence Rich Masters Birth Citizens Universal Embrace Slave Greek Human Existence Child Of God Barbarians Brethren Commonwealth

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.”

Language Offers Useless Greek Vague Translations Translators

Book:A room of one's own and other essays

Source: A room of one's own and other essays

“That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?”

Knows Names Answers Very Good Greek Good Questions

Author:Arthur Miller

“As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.”

Use Jobs Happiness Given President Lines Groups Excellence Definitions Greek Presidency Definition Of Happiness

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

People Men Reality Too Much Ordinary Affair Brilliant Greek Misfortunes Ordinary Man

Author:Thucydides

“I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.”

People Knows Helping Let Me Greek Alone In Love

Author:Giannis Ritsos

“Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.”

Should War Reason Military Example Discipline Greek Ems No Reason Latin Needles Latin And Greek Military Discipline

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.”

Character Film Purpose Interest Understood Theatre Greek Unusual Usual Portraying

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.”

Men Mean Names Black Unique Greek

Author:Arsenio Hall

“That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.”

Giving Eye Fun Voice Roles Seeing Greek Chorus Cool Things Greek Chorus

Author:Jorge Garcia

“All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.”

Dark Glasses Newspapers Greek Hats Dark Glasses

Author:Sharon Stone

“You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.”

Thinking Father Catholic Jew Greek Priests Orthodox Greek Orthodox

Author:Walter Matthau

“Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.”

Children Christian Understanding Chaos Myth Tales Greek Fairy Fairy Tale Stolen Mixtures Greek Myth

Author:Emma Thompson

“You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"”

Knows Men Writing Passion Died Greek Serendipity Obituary

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.”

Has Beens Tragedy Deny Actresses Greek Comparison Greek Tragedy

Book:As I am: an autobiography

Source: As I am: an autobiography

“"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."”

Hot Greek Baths

Author:Tom Baker

“I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.”

Games Strong My Favorite Hunger Mythology Greek Obsessed Goddess Greek Mythology Heroines Artemis Katniss Greek Myth

Author:Isabelle Fuhrman

“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.”

Firsts Age Civilization Ass Greek Entering Renaissance Greek Civilization

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!”

“My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.”

Mom Healthy Cooking My Mom Greek

Author:Cat Cora

“If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.”

Ifs Years Views Citizens Greek Elderly Grandkids Greek God

Author:Michio Kaku

“And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage”

Way Play Crime Music Is Greek Heritage

Author:Tony Randall

“I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.”

Happenings Greek Capitol Keds

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I'm addicted to Jack's Wife Freda, a South African - Jewish-inspired restaurant founded by my brother Dean and his amazing wife, Maya. The vibe is cool and relaxed, perfect for a daytime bite or a nightcap. I always get the Peri-Peri chicken and the kale Greek salad, but all the food is delicious. You simply cannot go wrong!”

Perfect Wife Brother South Inspired Greek My Brother Restaurants Chickens Bites South Africa Delicious Relaxed Salad Dean Daytime Kale Nightcap

Author:Kara Janx

“The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.”

Mean Stupid Boxes Greek

Book:Lucas Samaras

Source: Lucas Samaras

“When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.”

Thinking Bigs Kids Growing Up Growing Grew Healthy Eating Grew Up Cooking Greek Southern Mississippi Artichokes Okra

Author:Cat Cora

“We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'”

“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”

Matter Light Artist Grows Space Taught Wall Architecture Rhythm Greek Columns Space Between

Author:Louis Kahn

“They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'”

Ifs Has Beens Sometimes Might Fall Quiet Bird Saved Flying Greek Desirable Clown Arrows Archer

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”

Wife Son My Wife Greek Your Son Athenians

Author:Themistocles

“There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.”

Source: Hippocrates

“Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.”

Wells Has Beens Two Happens Christianity Study Clear Four Degrees Including Decades Greek Scholar Biblical Testament New Testament Fluency

Author:Reza Aslan

“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”

Ifs Two Real Results Views Taught Philosopher Greek Things Change Never Change Greek Philosopher Socratic

Book:The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.”

Thinking May Stills Country Literature Individual Nations Talking Brother Civilization Affair Our Country Curious Greek Civilized Monument Barbarians

Author:William Dean Howells

“Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.”

Culture Language Common Special Communication Taste Music Is Psychological Greek Classical Music Reciprocal Shorthand Archeology Common Culture

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.”

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