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

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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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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• 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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• Come back with your shield - or on it

  Plutarch

  Sparta, Shields, Empires

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• Man is the measure of all things.

  Protagoras

  Philosophical, Men, Religion

  Quoted in Plato, Theaetetus

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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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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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