Greek Quotes

• The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

  

  Conan Stevens
  • Life
  • Different
  • Book

• If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sun

• In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Connection
  • Architecture
  • Greek

• 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.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Divine
  • Consistent
  • Envious

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek

• I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Support
  • Greek

• What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Patience
  • Greek

• I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

  

  Mary Beard
  • School
  • Science
  • German

• The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Why
  • Democracy
  • German

• Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Greek

• We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Men
  • Night

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

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • God
  • Greek

• I've done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn't stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Done
  • Greek

• ‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Greek

• They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.

  

  Tacitus
  • Father
  • Greek

• Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • Victory
  • Desert
  • Greek

• That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

  

  Jared Harris
  • History
  • Period
  • Greek

• With 'Greek Gods,' I wanted to go with the blue and green hues of sky and water; with 'Heroes,' I felt the color needed to be more dramatic and give a sense of battle, rage, and yes, of blood. That's the world these demigods lived in, and I felt that orange and red would also compliment the greenish blue of the 'Gods' cover.

  

  John Rocco
  • World
  • Water
  • Color

• We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

  

  Penelope Lively
  • Bible
  • Greek

• If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Greek

• People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

  

  Curt Flood
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus
  • Greek

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