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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.