Quotes About Hellenism

#1. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Matthew Arnold

#2. I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Telly Savalas

#3. How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

Nicolas Bourriaud

#4. Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

Konstantinos Karamanlis

#5. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#6. Everyone wants to get a piece of me.

Tiger Woods

#7. But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

Graham Harvey

#9. Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.

Molly Guptill Manning

#10. Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Steve Carell

#11. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha

#12. If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

John Piper

#13. We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Carl Sagan

#14. When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

H.W. Brands

#15. I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

Nick Cannon

#16. We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn