Quotes by Greek The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other. George Sarton greek religious struggle I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. George Tenet greek If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now. Gerald Sinstadt horse greek football When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. George Saunders greek kids world Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. George Orwell notion greek latin The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins greek brave self I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you. Giannis Ritsos greek helping people Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. George Will greek religious sports Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. Gilbert Murray definitions language greek The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. Gilbert Murray limits greek facts Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. Gilbert Murray greek reading literature Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant Gilbert K. Chesterton ignorant greek latin The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject. Gladys Pyle greek doe mean Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. Gore Vidal greek two blood Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. George Bernard Shaw gentleman greek men Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. Gilbert K. Chesterton bernard-shaw greek plato From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks H. P. Blavatsky zodiac greek names I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there. Hannah Simone greek house thinking You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. Harold MacMillan virtue greek people I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. Harold Bloom greek successful thinking «678910111213141516»