Greek Quotes

The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

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.

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!

He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.

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.

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.