Quotes by greek authors

No one who errs unwillingly is evil. Sophocles

Evil No-One Unwillingly Who

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. Sophocles

Shameful Taught Deeds

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead. Stavros Niarchos

Valve No-One He Instead Stoke Oil Wants Coal Regulate

You can never tell what ships are worth. Stavros Niarchos

You Worth Tell Never Ships

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. Taki Theodoracopulos

Speak Political Language Proper Know Without How Very Being

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles

Me Compulsion Gods Persuasion Two

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. Theocritus

Words Sense Torrent Begins Now

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus

Life Nature Generation Behavior Plants Consider Distinctive Characters Must General Point Point Of View Course Conditions Mode View Whole External

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano. Vangelis

Music Inevitable Think Else Synthesizer Out More More Than Anything Piano Deal Always Sound Sounds Than Get Wanted Anything Anything Else

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe. Vangelis

Music Art Science Universe More Main Than Code

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember. Vangelis

Remember Long Composing Performing Been

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature. Vangelis

Teacher Music Nature Language Main

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music. Vangelis

Music Day Every Day Every Compose Paint

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing. Vangelis

Important Feel Understand Doing Avant-Garde Hardly

If you look for truth, you have to be courageous. Vangelis

Truth You Look Courageous

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast. Vangelis

Me Amazing Slow Beast Creation Extremely Stay Area Computers Insufficient Scientific Efforts Helpful Therefore Multitude Away

Success is sweet and treacherous. Vangelis

Success Sweet Success Is Treacherous

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe. Yanis Varoufakis

Blacks Greeks Europe

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules. Yanis Varoufakis

Political Power National Own Every State Backed Finances Rules Possessing Berlin Member Responsible Over Budgets Limited Fiscal Veto Bank Which Union Eurozone Including Violate

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism. Yanis Varoufakis

Government Debate Though Carried Critic Marxism Adviser His Greece Greek Public Turned Europe Even Resigned Early

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair. Yanis Varoufakis

Hope Shopping Political Revolution Tony Blair Corner Extreme Out Would About Triumph Blair Over New Well Housing Were Truly Mall Thatcher Store Inadvertently Bogus Bring Tony

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone. Yanis Varoufakis

Experience Invention Design Enormous Faults Between Least Continents Labour American Did Difference Predicament Much European Eurozone Two