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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. -- George Santayana
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. -- John Henrik Clarke
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. -- Nigel Farage
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. -- Ted Cruz
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
Greece is the most magical place on Earth. -- Kylie Bax
Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world. -- Alexis Tsipras
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. -- John Milton
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. -- Nia Vardalos
Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon. -- Evangelos Venizelos
We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe. -- Alexis Tsipras
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. -- Giorgos Seferis
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. -- Socrates
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. -- Stephen Gardiner
The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable. -- James Monroe
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. -- Melina Mercouri
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. -- Odysseas Elytis
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. -- Jay Leno
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. -- Roald Dahl
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction. -- Moses Mendelssohn
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
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. -- Robert South
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
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. -- Christine Lagarde
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. -- Jane Elliott
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice. -- George Papandreou
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left. -- Alexis Tsipras
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? -- Orson F. Whitney
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
There are enormous resources in Greece. -- Barack Obama
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror. -- Horace
I've always wanted to come to Greece. -- Barack Obama
Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece. -- Antonis Samaras
Greece is a good place for rebirths. -- Judith Martin
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. -- Michelle Paver
And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece. -- Strabo
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. -- George Papandreou
Greece is not an easy country to do business in. -- Ali Babacan
Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt. -- Antonis Samaras
I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece. -- Wolfgang Schauble
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. -- Bertrand Russell
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance -- Samuel Johnson
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone. -- Victor Ponta
Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year. -- Herodotus
I lived in Greece. I had a lot of party experience there. -- Sarah Wright
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world. -- Victor Hugo
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster. -- George Papandreou
I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece." -- James Theodore Bent
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. -- Matthew Arnold
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece. -- James Theodore Bent
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa. -- Esha Gupta
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece. -- Anaxagoras
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter -- Nelson Mandela
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. -- Socrates
The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. -- Henry Miller
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium -- Horace
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! -- Lord Byron
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it. -- Loukas Tsoukalis
I truly enjoyed Greece - Santorini. That's somewhere that I always want to be. -- Kendall Jenner
Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece... -- Peter Green
In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead. -- Melina Mercouri
To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece. -- Michael Hudson
Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus. -- Alexis Tsipras
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! -- Louis Simpson
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. -- William Cowper
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. -- Henry Fuseli
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. -- Thucydides
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. -- Lucas Papademos
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. -- David Bonderman
To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece. -- Barack Obama
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ... -- Nancy Mitford
The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. -- Nigel Farage
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas. -- Howard Rheingold
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ? -- Alex Morritt
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece -- Nikos Kazantzakis
I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people. -- Barack Obama
Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone. -- Lucas Papademos
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone. -- Antonis Samaras
Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth. -- Alexis Tsipras
We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece. -- Mitch McConnell
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. -- George Papandreou
Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is. -- Rick Riordan
We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat. -- Antonis Samaras
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. -- Melina Mercouri
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. -- James Surowiecki
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. -- Lucas Papademos
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge. -- Simonides of Ceos
Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold, Both will rise when the markets crash -- Kim Dotcom
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta. -- Diogenes
My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece. -- Barack Obama
Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB. -- Antonis Samaras
I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece. -- Alexis Tsipras
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! -- Malcolm Turnbull
We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together. We're becoming Greece if we don't work together. -- Lindsey Graham
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. -- Clarence Day
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. -- Steven Pressfield
Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them. -- John Daniel
I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy. -- George Papandreou
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. -- Alexis Tsipras
The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it. -- Yiannis Stournaras
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. -- George Papandreou
We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece. -- Martin Schulz
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
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. -- Alexis Tsipras
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. -- Hanya Yanagihara
One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear. -- Peter Bofinger
Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient. -- George Papandreou
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery. -- Mark Twain
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. -- David Antin
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. -- John Fowles
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone. -- Evangelos Venizelos
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation. -- Evangelos Venizelos

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