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I was too shocked to register that he'd just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I'd understood him perfectly. — Rick Riordan

The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world. — Matthew A. Petti

Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects. — Michael Dobbs

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. — Anne Rice

Only the sixth sense can expose what the other five have hidden. — Matthew A. Petti

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death — Aeschylus

We are not separate from spirit, we are within it." -Plotinus, ancient Greek Sage & Mystic — Sara Rider

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? — Aristophanes

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. — Avery Brundage

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. — George Bernard Shaw

The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov

The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer, — Mike Brown

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition. — Aristotle.

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it. — Karen Duffy

Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. — Matthew A. Petti

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?
- A very lost Marcus Brody — Rob MacGregor

Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue. — Robert Thier

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. — Werner Herzog

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis. — David Blunkett

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden