Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 5

I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I write music for the Greek people because I'm Greek, I compose for all the people.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that's what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that's what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don't try to be authentic and real with themselves.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I want to leave this world as a Communist.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

What happens when an industry transitions from using one or more 'smart' and centralized networks to using a common, decentralized, open, and dumb network? A tsunami of innovation that was pent up for decades is suddenly released.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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.

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my comrades are suffering.

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.

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