#greeks

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#breed #fervent #greeks #know #me

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#always #back #blaming #crisis #financial

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. ↗

— Edward Bond

#greeks #said #their #things #tragedies

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. ↗

— Marilyn French

#ancient greeks #delusion #even #greeks #insanity

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ancient greeks #arms #center #circle #described

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. ↗

— Nathaniel Lee

#joined #then #tug #war

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

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. ↗

— George Michael

#any #between #connection #ethnic #felt

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#art #back #enhancing #food #go