Greece Quotes - Page 12

• Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

  James Surowiecki

  Beach, California, Lovely

  "Debtor States". www.newyorker.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Taxation, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Battle, Stronger

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Real, Sacrifice

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

  Homer

  Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields

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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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• My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

  George Papandreou

  Country, World, Turns

  "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

  George Papandreou

  Opportunity, Europe, Fiscal Policy

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• Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

  George Papandreou

  Political, Framework, Has Beens

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• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

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• I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

  Steven Pressfield

  Fun, Stuff, Ancient

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Europe, Euro

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• Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Democracy, World

  "Greece is in danger of a humanitarian crisis". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Mean, Water, Railroads

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• Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Government, Promise

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

  Max Irons

  Reading, Free Diving, Hiking

  "Face Time | Max Irons". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Leaving, Euro

  CNBC Transcript: CNBC'S Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

  Homer

  Grief, Fate, Men

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• Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

  James Theodore Bent

  Believe, Healing, Flow

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• The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

  Carl Sagan

  Honesty, Ideas, Democracy

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• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Leader, Greek

  "Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,

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• The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Character

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 3, 1513.

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

  Adoniram Judson

  Christian, Prayer, Adoption

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