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“I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.”

Mind Art Memories Awareness Ideals Tradition Perfection Chinese Greek Representing Egyptian Eclectic Classical Art

Author:Agnes Martin

“Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.”

Men Believe Whole Would Be Order Cases Grace Son Greek Righteousness Grace Of God

Author:Horatius Bonar

“The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.”

“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.”

Source: The Road To Mecca

“Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.”

Mean Rocks Stones Greek Distinction Confined Petra

Author:Frank E. Gaebelein

“The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.”

Trying Wells Names Preserves Greek Distinction Feminine Masculine Pun Petra

Author:Frank E. Gaebelein

“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”

Dream Together Used Literature Dark Mystery Ancient Stranger Greek Cinema Participating Ancient Greek Unison

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.”

Light Emotion Drama Shadow Greek Halls Wrestling Reserves Spectacles Greek Drama

Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.”

Life Wells Wisdom Inspirational Life Wise Words Honor Words Of Wisdom Ancient Live Life Greek Living My Life Wise Man Once Said Live Well Ancient Greek Greek Philosopher Life Well Lived

Author:Socrates

“In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.”

Problem President Rich Taxes Solutions Raises Rate Barack Greek Unemployment Greece Risen President Barack Obama Unemployment Rate

Author:Jay Leno

“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”

Doe Self Left Voice Century Capacity Contrary Greek Telling The Truth Milton Bedrock Dostoyevsky Chaucer

Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.”

Way Art Two Important Country Facts Lasts Values Class Comedy Citizens Equal Treats Crafts Greek Mask Last Time Being Funny Second Class Citizens

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.”

Three Six Ancient Greek Ninety Eighty Persian Sanskrit

Author:Robert Johnson

“To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.”

World Beautiful Spirit Mark Greek Rejoice

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“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 over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.”

Years Firsts Past Energy Interest Five Saws Grace Movement Mets Ancient Athlete Caught Decades Greek Ancient Greek Captivated Great Athlete

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Id like to live in the Greek islands”

Greek Islands

Author:Paul Wesley

“The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.”

Two Greek Two Friends

Author:Radovan Karadzic

“I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages: 'T is English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.”

Science Language Party Learning Cutting Dresses Symbols Greek Latin Patches Chemist Dialect Satin

Author:Sir Richard Phillips

“In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.”

World Ideas Reality Eye Imagination Land Eternal Concepts Creator Greek Existential Plato Tricky Workshops Archetype Rigor Unbreakable Feasting Rigor Mortis

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.”

Said Humor Wanted Funny Guy Girl Difficult Space Comedy Seeing Serious Ready Greek Eyebrows Space Between This Girl Difficult Relationship

Author:Demetri Martin

“Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.”

“Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'”

Greek Meter Rowing

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.”

Ifs Knows Littles Has Beens Age Wanted Moving Values Individual Felt Sports Seeing Blood Intellectual Beats Ultimate Athlete Eight Practicals Checks Greek Workout Rowing Oar

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.”

Sports Brain Sea And Love Intelligent Greek Harmonious Precision Rowing Nautical Tactical Agonizing Quintessential Odysseus

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.”

“A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.”

Source: Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

“In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.”

Writing Years School Education Greek Latin Twelve Verses Alphabet

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.”

States Moments Next Growth Decision Understood Overcoming Mark Crisis Obstacles Release Greek Initiation Juncture

Author:Jill Purce

“Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love”

Speak Language Greek Persian Turkish

Author:Rumi

“There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.”

Made Book Christianity Written Raises Jew Former Greek Publication Objections Converting Rabbi Clergymen Milan

Author:Julius Streicher

“It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.”

Trying Moments Seems Politics Left Wind Republican Speech Tired Yesterday Ships Greek Something New Sail Thrill Presidency Surviving Slogans Columns Stirring Grasping Adrift

Author:Paul Ryan

“This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.”

People Men World Today Chance Education Technology Learning Tomorrow Moon Achievement Projects All Time Remembered Greek Humankind Scanning Today Not Tomorrow

Author:Brewster Kahle

“Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."”

Mean Loses Enthusiasm Greek Etymology

Author:Ken Burns

“The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.”

Mean Missing Eternal Greek Here And Now Eternal Life Sinning

Author:Alan Watts

“When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.”

Said Young Dies Lord Youth God Love Greek Die Young

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.”

“Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.”

Men Should Mind Littles Too Much Bears Greek Pondering Admonition

Author:Joseph Pilates

“The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.”

Logic Greek Fooled

Book:Before the Sabbath

Source: Before the Sabbath

“The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.”

Knows Love Persons Love Is Poet Exciting Longing Including Ancient Philosopher Greek Puzzled Ancient Greek

Author:Nicole Kidman

“The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.”

Fighting Hero Greek

Author:Winston Churchill

“I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.”

Race Century Periods Members Greek Nineteenth Century Anglo Saxon

Book:Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden

Source: Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden

“As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.”

Said Waiting Interesting Tragedy Greek Proportion Unfortunate Greek Tragedy

Author:Maryrose Wood

“II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.”

Knows Littles Mythology Greek Far Away Greek Mythology Greek Myth Nordic

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.”

Giving Energy Perfect Healthy Benefits Give Me Greek Breakfast Filling Yogurt Granola Greek Yogurt

Author:Shantel VanSanten

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”

“Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.”

Thinking Littles Right Now Eating Sitting Fruit Fishes Fantastic Greek Meat Diets Islands Nuts Vegetables Lambs Salad Yogurt Octopus Sipping Mediterranean Sea Fresh Fish Greek Yogurt

Author:Cat Cora

“My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.”

Two Dark Eating Green Fishes Greek Meat Meals Giants Consistent Breakfast Vegetables Salad Yogurt Greek Yogurt

Author:Veronica Webb

“The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.”

Sides Laughing Loud Discussion Greek Meals Good Meals

Author:Rita Wilson

“We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.”

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