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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
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!
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.
Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!
War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ???????? (composed of equal parts).
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.
Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple personal feelings of love, nostalgia, etc.
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.
Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!
'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, played by me, her younger brother, and all the people that are involved in their lives from the different fraternities.
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus's Greek and Turkish populations fell into open hostility.
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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.