Greek Quotes - Page 3

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Winston Churchill

War, Taken, Decision

Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

Andre-Marie Ampere

Art, Communication, Mean

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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

John C. Wright

Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Expression, Devil, Belly

"Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VIII, Chapter 9, 1735.

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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Barry S. Strauss

Rowing, Meter

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Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Winston Churchill

Scotland, Earth, Ancient

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Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

Mary Stewart

Party, Two, Political

Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

Anne Carson

Teacher, School, Years

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My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

John Steinbeck

Wise, Fall, Sleep

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.57, Penguin

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I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Rita Wilson

Home, School, Coming Home

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

George Bernard Shaw

Light, House, Library

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You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

Melina Mercouri

Glowing, Said, Let Me

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A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Katy Mixon

People, Tennessee, Brecht

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Juvenal

Latin, Ignorant, Shameful

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 460, Satires, VI, line 187, 1922.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Epicurus

Inspirational, History, Aristocracy

"Epicurus's Morals".

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

Art, Poetry, Quiet

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The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Mathematical Logic, Suffering

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Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Philosophical, Men, Religion

Quoted in Plato, Theaetetus

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Come back with your shield - or on it

Plutarch

Sparta, Shields, Empires

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My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.

Anne Waldman

Mother, Father, Hippie

"Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

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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.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Time, Moving, Eye

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

David Benioff

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

"Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Thucydides

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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