Quotes About Ancient Greece And Rome

#1. In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

John Walford

#2. We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

Peter Singer

#3. I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

Camille Paglia

#4. Over most of the one thousand years of philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy was assiduously studied in every generation by many ancient philosophers and their students as the best way to become good people and to live good human lives.

John M. Cooper

#5. If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#6. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

Henry Cavill

#7. Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Henry Fuseli

#8. I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

John Frusciante

#9. If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

Ayn Rand

#10. Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Cecil Frank Powell

#11. Nurture your divine strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Edward Thomson

#13. But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

William Watson

#15. When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen
Of Greece and Rome who bravely stood
Three hundred men and three men

And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain
And Ireland long a province be
A nation once again

Thomas Osborne Davis

#16. Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Adrian Grenier

#17. It's intuition, isn't it? Depression is intuition that I don't express, and if I just express those feelings, no matter how nuts they seem, there's no need for depression.

S. Kelley Harrell

#18. Romeo was tall, well over six feet, with broad shoulders that tapered into narrow waist. He wasn't a bulky guy; he played too many sports for that. But even so, it was obvious his body was all muscle.

Cambria Hebert

#19. Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Jeremy Bolt

#20. Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Taylor Swift

#21. You told me to be myself, so I am.

Cora Carmack

#22. Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Horace