Quotes and Sayings About Greek

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Greek #Historical #Sake

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 #Greek #Devil

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
-- Alan Furst

#Army #Europe #Greek

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
-- Albert Camus

#Greek #Humanity

Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
-- Albert Camus

#Self Worth #Men #Greek

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
-- Alexander Pope

#War #Greek #Gold

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
-- Alexander the Great

#Moving #Army #Greek

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
-- Alexander the Great

#Army #Leader #Greek

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
-- Alexandra Wentworth

#Children #Blood #Greek

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Past #People #Greek

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Greek #Firsts #Mathematics

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Greek #Hollywood #Factories

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
-- Allan Bloom

#Communication #Greek #Special

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.
-- Allan Bloom

#Greek #Philosopher #Forget

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating
-- Anaxagoras

#Thinking #Greek #Passing Away

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
-- Anaxagoras

#Life #Greek #Would Be

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
-- Anaxagoras

#Greek #Might #Becoming

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
-- Andrew Bird

#Song #Challenges #Greek

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Greek #Today #Proof

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
-- Angela Carter

#Dream #Dark #Greek

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Greek

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
-- Anne Carson

#Names #Greek #Adjectives

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
-- Anne Carson

#Thinking #Greek #Trying

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.
-- Antonis Samaras

#Believe #Greek #Exit

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
-- Aristotle Onassis

#Sleep #Worry #Greek

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Block #Air #Greek

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...
-- Arrian

#Leader #Greek #Done

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are
-- Arthur Koestler

#Laughter #Greek #Tragedy

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Writing #Greek #Sacred

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 #Greek