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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
Darian is a Greek name, and my grandson is definitely going to be a Greek God, just like his grandfather.
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.