Top 27 Greek Play Quotes

#1. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Carla Gugino

Greek Play Quotes #155804
#2. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #201415
#3. Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #369875
#4. True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

William J. Clinton

Greek Play Quotes #377554
#5. I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

Luke Evans

Greek Play Quotes #422656
#6. I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Neil Patrick Harris

Greek Play Quotes #572010
#7. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #661846
#8. Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #702057
#9. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Jay Woodman

Greek Play Quotes #782617
#10. Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.

Kim Smith

Greek Play Quotes #821220
#11. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #836983
#12. Under (Lyndon) Johnson, the Senate functions like a Greek tragedy. All the action takes place offstage, before the play begins. Nothing is left for the participants but the enactment of their prescribed roles.

Bobby Baker

Greek Play Quotes #857931
#13. You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

Greek Play Quotes #928083
#14. In a battle of wills, of the gods of old. For each his revenge, will he forfeit his soul. On the chess board of blood, will their narrative play. aged, innocent lives, revenge claims her way. Out of hate will come love, and love will come hate. For immortal and man, have entwined their damned fate.

L.A. Starkey

Greek Play Quotes #933379
#15. I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

Kellan Lutz

Greek Play Quotes #940149
#16. I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

Negash Ali

Greek Play Quotes #1082181
#17. In childbirth grief begins.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #1101164
#18. On the one hand there is myself, and on the other the rest of the universe. I am not rooted in the earth like a tree. I rattle around independently. I seem to be the center of everything, and yet cut off and alone.

Alan W. Watts

Greek Play Quotes #1136584
#19. Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

Kelly Link

Greek Play Quotes #1153217
#20. Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

Bear Bryant

Greek Play Quotes #1160951
#21. You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences
with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring
more wine instead and play your lute; your changes in tones
remind me of the wind that rushes past and disappears,
just like us.

Omar Khayyam

Greek Play Quotes #1288513
#22. Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

Neil MacGregor

Greek Play Quotes #1384445
#23. There's nothing like a stressful day.

Trent Reznor

Greek Play Quotes #1549497
#24. Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Robert Beverly Hale

Greek Play Quotes #1588497
#25. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

Gilbert Highet

Greek Play Quotes #1660158
#26. Beauty misleads without lying, like an ambiguous prophecy in a Greek play. We read into it our hopes, to which it is indifferent. We ask it to be true and good, but it has its own way of measuring worth, its own standard and authority.

Phillip Margulies

Greek Play Quotes #1729648
#27. It's human; we all put self interest first.

Euripides

Greek Play Quotes #1795538

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