Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 4

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

Adventure is worthwhile.

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The sun is new each day.

I don't see people voting for me for coming from a political family. I see people voting for me despite me coming from a political family.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don't. Or they mess with me, and I feel awkward.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Even Andy Warhol had a copy of '666.'

I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

You can never tell what ships are worth.

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.

If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.