Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.
We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.
In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.
And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy
It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.
Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
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.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.
Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.
Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.
The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
