Greek Quotes

• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Pretty
  • Day
  • Dark

• Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Real
  • Science
  • Understanding

• There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Today
  • Stills
  • Proof

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

  John Eaton
  • Drama
  • Greek

• If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Jesus

• I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • War
  • Greek

• Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

  

  George Chakiris
  • Why
  • Failing
  • Restaurants

• You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Church
  • Greek

• What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither one nor the other without acknowledging that the smallest part of Nature confounds and amazes those who know most. What statue or cast of it might there be that is not copied from divine nature?

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Nature
  • Greek

• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  

  Diogenes
  • World
  • Greek

• Greek blood courses through me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • Greek

• The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Powerful
  • Virtue
  • Saint

• There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Fire
  • Greek

• I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Know
  • Mythology
  • Far Away

• In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Believe
  • Gift
  • Rejection

• Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • God
  • Book
  • Universe

• The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Music
  • Mythology
  • The Beatles

• We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Explore

• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Tragedy

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Clouds
  • Landscape
  • Churches

• He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Greek

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Greek

• There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Relationship

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