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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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.
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.
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.
Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.
What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.
We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.
Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
I would not sacrifice myself for a system like the Soviet system to be established in Greece.
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
We remain open to explore options on a voluntary approach built on a realistic outlook for the Greek economy and restoration of Greece's market access.
I am also integration minister and speak with many refugees. When I ask if they came with the goal of living in Greece or Poland, most of them answer "no."
My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.
I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff like that.
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
