Greek Quotes - Page 24

• I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

  Joseph Boyden

  Ideas, Tragedy, Classic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

  Eric Drooker

  Mean, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Reading, Sacrifice, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Democracy, Borders, Movement

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Country, Strong, Hate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Latin, Church, Different

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

  Donald Sutherland

  Running, Writing, Dna

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Ego, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

  Alexander Chee

  Abuse, Olympus, Gods And Goddesses

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

  Cate Blanchett

  Fate, Thinking, Destiny

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I honestly just love Greek yogurt and honey, and berries, and some KIND granola or something because that's always something that I'm down to eat. But everything else, like anything savory just has to be ordered really last minute because I never know.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Greek Yogurt, Berries, Honey

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. There is a partly biological basis for this identification. The 'nature' of woman may be conceptualised in the early Greek sense of a force or a power, in its turn shaped by forces outside it, rather than in terms of some set of properties.

  Alison Assiter

  Doubt, Important, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.

  Dan Millman

  Book, Warrior, Years

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• Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Wall, Ethnicity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

  Michael Boatman

  Inspiration, Dark, Stories

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

  Richard Leider

  Purpose, Enthusiasm, Filled

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

  John Assaraf

  Mean, Belief, Behavior

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Islam, World

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fighting, Public Opinion, Floating

  Source: marketnews.com

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• The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Want, Camps, Greece

  Source: marketnews.com

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• We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

  John Shelby Spong

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I find it fascinating that Paul [the apostol], writing to the Galatians, responds to the question, "What does it mean to live in Christ?" by saying, "There is no longer Jew or Greek,
  there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Mean, Writing

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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