299 Quotes About Greek

Hayatımda ilk defa olarak karşı karşıya kalıyordum iktidarın o basiretsiz körlüğüyle; dehşete uğramıştım. O çağımda nereden bilebirdim ki ben, bütün ömrüm boyunca, hep bu körlükle savaşacağım

Αυτό πάει να πει να 'σαι σιβιλάιζντ. Να πατάς στα σκατά με αψηλό τακούνι.

If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.

The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty.

Distinguishing Marks Every land has its distinguishing mark.Particular to Thessaly are horsemanship and horses;what marks a Spartanis war's season; Media hasits tables with their dishes;hair marks the Celts, the Assyrians have beards.But the marks that distinguish Athens are Mankind and the Word.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5]

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.