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“I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.”

Book Bigs Bed Greek Collections

Author:Bill Vaughan

“You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.”

Want Play Feelings Blood Depth Greek Boots Gore Blood And Gore

Author:Ruth Negga

“I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.”

Fruit Greek Snacks Yogurt Almonds Greek Yogurt

Author:Taylor Schilling

“I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!”

Kind Book Bigs Kids Passion Heard Mythology Greek Legends Greek Mythology My Passion Very Popular Arthurian Legend Greek Myth

Author:Steve Valentine

“Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.”

Littles Women Greek Islands

Book:Ups and downs: stories

Source: Ups and downs: stories

“I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe. They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead.”

“Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.”

Voice Tears Beats Ancient Tongue Greek Insult Gossip Latin Shed Exile Ghetto Ancient Greek Yiddish Insults You

Book:Cold Case

Source: Cold Case

“My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.”

Knows World Should Firsts Different Sound Special Sweet Embrace Greek Grandfather My Grandfather Old World Very Sweet

Author:Melina Kanakaredes

“If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince and people, he made a very false estimate of his own character, and of the manners of Antioch. The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquillity and opulence; and the lively licentiousness of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians.”

Source: The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.”

Ifs Should Humans May Has Beens Facts Wanted Order Asks Literature Perfect Race Draws Universal India Greek Comprehensive Inner Life Republic Day Most Wanted

Book:India: What Can it Teach Us?

Source: India: What Can it Teach Us?

“Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time - courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies - in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.”

“There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.”

Men Firsts Humans Three Born Animal Thirds Grateful Fortune Greek Attributes Barbarians I Am Grateful

Author:Thales

“From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.”

Knows Humanity Belief Oneself Boxes Contrary Symbols Greek Resignation Stirring Pandora Pandora's Box

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.”

Names Greek Rivalry Greek God

Author:Zelo

“Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.”

Civilization Conscious Greek Greek Civilization

Author:W. H. Auden

“It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.”

Ifs Years Mean Stills War States Order Games Wish Peace Cities Ought Years Ago Remembered Greek Civilized Bringing Peace Be Remembered By

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

Art Education Flower Greek Latin Insulting Botany

Author:Alphonse Karr

“I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.”

Matter Play Teach Performances Tragedy Theater No Matter What Greek Graduates Technological Obsolete Seminars Greek Tragedy

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German - and it will be home to all of those peoples. As for state affiliation, the people living in Crimea made their choice; it should be treated with respect, and Russia cannot do otherwise. I hope that our neighbouring and distant partners will ultimately treat this the same way, since in this case, the highest criteria used to establish the truth can only be the opinion of the people themselves.”

People Way Should Wells Made States Home Used Choices Opinion Cases Highest Treats Remains Partners Russia Treated Greek Criteria Ukrainian Affiliation Crimea

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

Thinking Trying Children Home Parent Modern Broken Complicated Divorce Myth Invention Greek Divorced Widows True You Greek Myth Broken Homes New Parents Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Rick Riordan

“Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.”

Order Sports Study Demand Disease All Things Greek Consistency Referring Logos

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.”

Long War Stories Evil Stars Universal Mythology Storytelling Greek Timeless Greek Mythology Versus Greek Myth

Author:Michael Franti

“My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.”

Christian Wife Married My Wife Greek Denominations

Author:Troy Polamalu

“It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.”

Way Beautiful Prayer Perfect Environment Greek Opera Chanting

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.”

Should Literature Issues Currents Greek Paris Reviews Canon Aspiring Writers

Author:William Kennedy

“I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.”

Children Has Beens Blood My Children Greek Pot

Author:Alexandra Wentworth

“In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.”

Want Doe Hero Fit Concepts India Mythology Indian Greek Greek Mythology Vocabulary Greek Myth

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.”

Knows World Believe Persons Real Stories Community Imagination Alive India Indian Greek Obsessed Being Real Objectivity Nobody Knows Subjectivity

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.”

Men Believe Matter Past Share Myth Warrior Greek Greek Myth

Author:Anne Fortier

“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”

Hours Greek Scholar Lectures Bulls Anthropologists Iliad Leopards

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.”

Stills Civilization Greek Surviving

Author:M.I.A.

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”

“For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.”

Adventure Products Stones British Greek Museums Icons Administrative British Museum Rosetta Stone

Author:Neil MacGregor

“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...”

“He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.”

Said Enjoy Moral Wife Possession Neighbor Manners Greek Neighbour Good Neighbor Precious Possessions

Author:Nicolas Bentley

“The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.”

Firsts Has Beens Play Father Exercise Greek Encounters Distinction Manhood Boxers Unarmed

Book:Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport

Source: Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

Thinking Humans Age Perfection Mere Greek Lasting Statues

Book:The Fox Inheritance

Source: The Fox Inheritance

“There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.”

Language Doubt Tradition Dear Greek No Doubt Latin Handsome Ornaments Borrowing

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.”

“We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless Robe of Jesus Christ ... Those who would not join Noah in his ark perished justly in the deluge; and these have justly suffered famine and hunger who would not receive as their shepherd the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.”

Believe Has Beens Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Blessed Hunger Scary Greek Judgement Peter Apostles Famine Shepherds Robes Crusades Ark Seamless Deluge

Author:Pope Innocent III

“One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conception of all lives matters. And it was really was true for them, that certain lives matter a lot more than others. It didn't dawn on them that all lives, although different, can be lives of equal mattering. And that is actually something a huge ethical lesson.”

Different Matter Certain Individual Interesting Rights Huge Lessons Equal Ancient Dawn Greek Ethical Conception Interesting Things Individual Rights Ancient Greek

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.”

Knows Kind Different Christian Pain Saint Trauma Ass Greek Different Kinds Romantic Love Kinds Of Love Christian Love Brotherly Brotherly Love Different Kinds Of Love Saint Francis

Author:John Maus

“I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.”

Want I Can Ideas War Principles Enormous Greek Athena Aries

Author:Stephen Fry

“The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.”

Ifs Wells Divine Understood Greek Consistent Envious Unkind Malicious Capricious

Author:Stephen Fry

“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!”

Believe Reason Whole Truth Form Names Speak Understood Skins Appearance Surface Greek Tone Superficial Adore Folds Profundity Olympus

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.”

People Philosophy Culture Healthy Philosophical Greek Engaged Justified

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”

Ifs Children Would Be Force Learning Mathematics Greek Latin Indispensable Monstrous Mental Power

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.”

Self Brave Manners Indian Greek Gentleman Controlled Imposing Greek God

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.”

People Men Made Country Hands Care Age Law Death Spirit Responsibility Military Duty Standards Standing Army Soldier Every Man Oppression Greek Engines Rulers Remedy Invincible

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”

Giving Kind May Given Sleep Liberty Cry Tears Glory Inspired Greek Paris Idle Fury Mislead August Frivolous Be Inspired Pavement Athenians Springboards

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables