Once You Go Greek Sayings

#1. A soul could be resurrected and re-born to another body, its memories restored, but once the house it belonged to had been emptied, they could no longer call it home."~Taznikos Abyssos

Yelle Hughes

#2. [A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Maryrose Wood

#3. Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Zoroaster

#4. Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.

Leopold Kronecker

#6. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

Michael Caine

#8. The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Phyllis Schlafly

#9. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Homer

#10. Let me get this straight," I said once I was settled securely on the rock. "I was struck by some kind of magical energy sent from Odin that shot out of the lights in the storeroom at Macy's, hitting me and knocking me into a pile of shoes? And because of that, I'm now immortal?

Amanda Carlson

#11. Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."

J. Frank Dobie

#12. Passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions
a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

Caroline Gordon

#13. Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

James MacArthur

#14. Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.

Brian Tracy

#15. Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

#16. I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

Chris Barber

#17. But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet."
"A ... what?"
"Gorilla at your buffet. You know ... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing?

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Guy thought of the Greek word agon, wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?

Edmund White

#19. She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

Arundhati Roy

#20. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#21. I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits.

Duane Elgin

#22. Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground. In order for me to speak the right amount in a meeting, I have to feel as if I am saying very little.

Sheryl Sandberg

#23. The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.

Anonymous

#24. Hysteria derives from the Greek word for "uterus," and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition

Rebecca Solnit

#25. plunge at once into matters as a Greek would, but offered first prayers for the free people's well-being.

Steven Pressfield

#26. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

#27. All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.

David Mitchell

#28. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Adam Nicolson