Quotes about greek
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus
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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
greek despair lines
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. Elizabeth Gilbert
greek study
Without Greek studies there is no education. Leo Tolstoy
greek financial blame
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. Lawrence Summers
greek vex dutch
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! Lewis Carroll
greek way surprise
So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon. Lucas Papademos
greek christianity
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. Oliver Stone
greek playwright
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
greek age
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
greek catholic church
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests. Pope Francis
greek wish tvs
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! Rick Riordan
greek together steam
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
greek language failing
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms. Thomas Szasz
greek language speak
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love Rumi
greek architecture geometry
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
greek-yogurt giving perfect
For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day. Shantel VanSanten
greek keds capitol
I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening. Lenny Kravitz
greek matter firsts
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. Simone Weil
greek age boyhood
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. Karl Kraus
greek heroic
A heroic nature is very Greek. Patrick Wilson
greek enthusiasm definitions
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. Madame de Stael
greek bitter satire
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. John Dryden
greek black myth
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. John Major
greek envious divine
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving. Stephen Fry
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He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess. Sparky Anderson
greek humanity insulting
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. Thomas Love Peacock
greek six three
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. Robert Johnson
greek baths hot
Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’. Tom Baker
greek feelings stories
I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things. Susanna Kaysen
greek knows
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Virgil
greek letters investing
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. Warren Buffett