Ancient Greek Roman Quotes

#1. Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

Michael Caine

#2. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#3. For the need to think can never be stilled by allegedly definite insights of "wise men"; it can be satisfied only through thinking, and the thoughts I had yesterday will satisfy this need today only to the extent that I want and am able to think them anew.

Hannah Arendt

#4. I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Tim Blake Nelson

#5. We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Nelson Mandela

#6. There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Adam Duritz

#7. We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

Gabriel Byrne

#8. If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

Will Durant

#9. I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

Rachel Hore

#10. Sometimes you catch the wave. Sometimes the wave catches you.

Michael Grant

#11. She was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.

Jonathan Franzen