Top 1200 Ancient Greece Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

Greece's debt is going to be a function of a lot of factors down the road.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

The wildwood is everywhere. It's inside us. It's outside us. And, of course, if you happen to be near any of the more ancient forests, not just in Europe; then, you are in touch with the source itself. But for me, it's about journeying into an inner landscape that is deeply embedded within us. We have a wild nature that most of us have forgotten, but it's there. And it's both light and dark. There are ancient atavistic things that need to be approached with care. But even these, if faced up to, can bring blessings.

Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

The benefit of coming to a place like Greece and winning is priceless for your development.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity.

war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece.

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

American Jews are behind the world economic crisis that has hit Greece also.

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with them.

It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

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.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we're going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those effects all around us.

I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.