Greek Quotes - Page 19

• To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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

  Antonis Samaras

  Believe, Exit, Eurozone

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Men, Eating

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• The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Firsts, Roles

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

  Edith Hamilton

  Excellence, Mind, Temples

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Witty, Party, Men

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• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Gone, World

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

  Dorothea Brande

  Religious, Games, Ancient

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• The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Country, Healing, Grace

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• In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Care, Matter, Gains

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• ... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

  Caroline Gordon

  Passion, Cities, Police

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• war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Animal, History

  Adrienne Mayor (2009). “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World”, Duckworth Publishing

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

  Alexis Tsipras

  Past, People, Common

  "Tsipras declares end to 'vicious cycle of austerity' after Syriza wins Greek election - as it happened" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2015.

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• In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.

  Ken Blackwell

  Men, Civilization, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, States, Bases

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Mixtures, May, Comic

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• I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Philosophy, Latin, Civilization

  "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  Patrick Wilson

  Heroic

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• I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

  Brendan Coyle

  Drama, Lying, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Desire, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Bed, Bigs

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• You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

  Ruth Negga

  Blood, Play, Feelings

  "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

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• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  Taylor Schilling

  Snacks, Greek Yogurt, Almonds

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• I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe.
  They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead.

  Theodoret

  Believe, Ignorance, Say Anything

  "Theodoret of Cyrus" (The Early Church Fathers) by Istvan Pasztori Kupan, Routledge, (p. 86), 2006.

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