Quotes about greek
greek use want
His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set Sherrilyn Kenyon
greek trying done
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.
greek pay doing-nothing
The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. It's an essentially corrupt society. Michael Lewis
greek gorges drink
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge. Plautus
greek-yogurt honey my-favorite
My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey. Misty May-Treanor
greek secret levels
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level. Nicolas Cage
greek victory desert
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. Melina Mercouri
greek invasion subjugation
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
greek tragedy actresses
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. Patricia Neal
greek facts modern
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. Oscar Wilde
greek littles far-away
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology. Mads Mikkelsen
greek means poet
Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.
greek why-not polish
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? Christopher Hitchens
greek diaspora proud
I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora. George Papandreou
greek reform records
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
greek connections felt
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. George Michael
greek
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. George Tenet
greek chinese next
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? Jeb Hensarling
greek example different
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example . Jean-Claude Juncker
greek want camps
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
greek humanity library
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. Carl Sagan
greek president unemployment
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. Jay Leno
greek study ancient
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. Francois Rabelais
greek failing restaurants
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? George Chakiris
greek chinese philosopher
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
greek literature aurora
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
greek hit home life people
He really hit home with a lot of the greek system. It made people think about what greek life is really about.
greek too-much blame
Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. Homer
greek limits facts
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
greek definitions language
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
greek able hibernation
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Georg C. Lichtenberg
greek-poet somehow trust
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. Aeschylus
greek hillbilly orthodox tenor
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church. Chris Hillman