109 Greece Quotes for You to Enjoy

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. Nick Harkaway

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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain. Olly Murs

Heart Celebrate Factor Beat Had Over Houses Judges Greece Hit After Spain Straight Barely Chance Filming

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. Peer Steinbruck

Seriously Own Deficits Worst Out Would Case More Stuck Taken Failings Demands Make Acceptable Well-Meaning Dealing Test Greece Quicksand Greeks Get Place Interest Paid Euro Zone

I lived in Greece. I had a lot of party experience there. Sarah Wright

Experience Party Had Lot Greece Lived

Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles. Sascha Radetsky

Mind Extraordinary Danced Dancer Once Some Paris Gladiator Performing Particular Leaps Venue Cuba Been Greece Places Lucky Rehearsing Spectacles

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

Music Wife Wind First Changes Honeymoon Tools Our Dancers Music Video Saw Background Machines Costume Onstage Recreate Fireworks Amazed Were Led Greece Screens While Video Basically

Every country in the E.U. should make a personnel and a financial contribution in that area. We shouldn't leave alone countries like Italy and Greece that have external borders; rather, we must make the external borders safe together. Sebastian Kurz

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration. Steve Hanke

Control State Spent Finances Recognition Administration Following Put Most French Were Greece Pattern Century Default Creditors Started Consequence

Contrary to what most people think, bank money is much more important than state money. In Greece, for example, bank money makes up 84.26% of the total money supply. Steve Hanke

People Money Example Important Think State Total More Supply For Example Most Makes Up Greece Contrary Than Bank Much

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

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer. Tyler Cowen

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The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers. Varg Vikernes

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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone. Victor Ponta

Hope Remain Greece Going Euro Zone

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

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. Walter Pater

Religion Made Christianity Complete Ancient Reconcile Some Attempt Scholars Renaissance Without Italian Account Greece Century Fifteenth Notice Certain

I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth. Wilbur Ross

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I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance. Wolfgang Schauble

First Living Every Spent High Would High Price Higher Price Cheap First Of All Knows Caution German Greece Germany Than Against Paying Standard Who European Second Vacation Assistance

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece. Wolfgang Schauble

Government Will Think Greece Bankruptcy

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

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions. Yorgos Lanthimos

Made Three Films Limited Conditions Very Greece Specific

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