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Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

Life - with or without softener- is hard — Kate Papas

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

Hey! I'm talkin' to you, feta bread! — Turkey

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. — Nia Vardalos

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

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. — George Papandreou

If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell

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

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us. — Jochen Zeitz

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. — Francis Bacon

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

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone. — Lucas Papademos

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 — John Archibald Wheeler

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world. — Victor Hugo

Oh my God, I grew up in the kitchen. Absolutely. The kitchen, for me, is home. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

I've turned it into the constant pursuit of natural and healthy living, which is much more than just exercise and how you eat. It's a way of life. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come ... — Homer

Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him. — Troy DeNuthe

Life keeps changing without giving a damn about our personal feelings. — Kate Papas

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
Patricia Briggs. — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas

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

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. — Evangelos Venizelos

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

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic — Patrick Leigh Fermor

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

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

... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. — Thucydides

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult. — Alan Greenspan

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector — Madeline Miller

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. — Mark Rutte

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

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper

I truly enjoyed Greece - Santorini. That's somewhere that I always want to be. — Kendall Jenner

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. — Mary Renault

That's how it goes - as soon as there's anything interesting in Ancient Greece, some arsehole with a magic hat comes along to murder it. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Evangelos Venizelos

The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then, — Gloria Steinem

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

Finding a balance, that's what we're all trying to do. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

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. — William Cowper

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. — Steve Wynn

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt. — Antonis Samaras

I like to keep things as simple as possible, that's just part of who I am. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'
To live alone?'
To live. With what you are. — John Fowles

You, you insolent brazen bitch - you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face? — Homer

Just be comfortable in your own skin. And that's how you can be the sexiest woman that you can possibly be. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends. — Rick Riordan

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster. — George Papandreou

Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves. — Stavro Nashi

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

... There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer

... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos

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

The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. — Hanya Yanagihara

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

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. — John Milton

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance — Samuel Johnson

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. — Michelle Paver

We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together. We're becoming Greece if we don't work together. — Lindsey Graham

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. — John Fowles

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

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong. — Jean-Claude Juncker

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. — Socrates

Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young people, this — Walter Isaacson

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

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. — Alexis Tsipras

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

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece ... — Peter Green

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

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

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

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh

And besides, we lovers fear everything — Ovid

And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece. — Strabo

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year. — Herodotus

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad. — Martha Gellhorn

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

Greece is a good place for rebirths. — Judith Martin

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. — Isaac Watts

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

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes — Sophocles

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

The Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one-fifth of the number that Greece translates. — Anonymous

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

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta. — Diogenes

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey. — Ali Babacan

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

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

In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze. — William Boyd

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. — Socrates

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome. — Mary Allsebrook