Gilbert Murray Quotes

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Gilbert Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 2, 1866 - May 20, 1957

Topics

MeaningMisunderstandingLimitModern

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

Sonny Sandoval

MusicPeopleYouCreatePlayWrite

I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.

Tom Graves

ThinkChairPossibleConservative

It was either therapy or die.

Mickey Rourke

DieTherapyEither

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

PeopleMeTeamPerformanceSigns

I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.

Lois Greenfield

DanceStoryInterestingPhotography

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Josiah Royce

LifeExperienceNowNothingFinal

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Jordan Peterson

MeTopPercentPublicationRecord

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

Jon McGregor

TimeLosingPeopleWorldInternet

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

William Levy

FamilyMotherMoneyTogetherHappy

Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.

Richard Neal

PlanStrongerSecuritySocialWeaker

People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.

Marie Helvin

MenPeopleMeTryingGalaxyUp

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

Martin McGuinness

DoneAshamedAnything

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