Greek Quotes - Page 25

• There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.

  Robert Barry

  Xenon, Years, Names

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

  James Hillman

  Book, Mean, Fate

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Businesses will only invest in Greece if three conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be a clear commitment to the euro. No businesses will invest if they have to fear that Greece will leave the euro zone at some point. Second, the Greek government must be prepared to work together with European institutions in order to restructure the country.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Commitment, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• "Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.

  Andre Vltchek

  Mean, Europe, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Father, War

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

  Marianne Williamson

  Government, Citizenry

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic.

  Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

  Simple

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Example, Different, Prime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing the prospect of leaving the euro zone and many Greeks felt abandoned by Europe. In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to me to present myself as a friend to Greece. It had to do with the country's dignity.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Mind, Body, Separation

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• I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

  William Golding

  Book, Age, May

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

  Yanni

  Use, Type, Just One

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.

  Yanni

  Daughter, Love Is, Car

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Long, Long Time

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, Chinese, Inward

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• The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

  John Dewey

  Ordinary, Way, Ancient

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

  Oliver Stone

  Playwright

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

  Oliver Stone

  Age, Information, Overload

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Origin Of Life, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Drama, Fall

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Essence, Ideas

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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• And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hunting, Archery, Names

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• It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Subtle

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• The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

  Tom Stoppard

  Coffee, Writing, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Beautiful, Book, Wire

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Incantation”

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