Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Mid-afternoon, I snack on Greek yogurt with nuts or a green juice from Juice Press.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.'

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

I eat a lot of Greek yogurt with honey, a lot of lean protein, vegetables.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.