Greek Quotes - Page 39

• The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Home, Italian, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

  David McCullough

  Regret, Latin, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fun, Latin, Thinking

  "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Practice, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

  William E. Gladstone

  Flower, Book, Civilization

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• Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Plato, Bernard Shaw, Made

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• It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  History, Tragedy, Ends

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• The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Hibernation, Able, Human Nature

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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• A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

  "Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

  Kellan Lutz

  Play, Greek God, Wanted

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• 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

  John Lydon

  Country, Lollipop, Opera

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• There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

  John Major

  Black, Myth, Wednesday

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

  John Major

  Banking Crisis, Europe, Debt

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Philosophy, Thinking

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mile Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

  Nicholas Biddle

  Two, World, Architecture

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

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• Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Men, Perfect

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• Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, Giving, Soul

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”

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• We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.

  Martin Schulz

  Refugee Crisis, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

  Jeb Hensarling

  Chinese, Bail, Next

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• These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

  Carey Mercer

  Real, Heart, Being In Love

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

  Eric Johnston

  Art, Drama, Firsts

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• The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

  Avery Brundage

  Athlete, Games, Kept Woman

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• On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

  Nia Vardalos

  Wedding, Real, Average

  "Dear Nia Vardalos, I Think You're Pretty Much Fabulous" by Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. June 15, 2009.

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