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?
Melina Mercouri

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
Stephen Harper

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

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
Melina Mercouri

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
Mohamed El-Erian

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

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.
Lucas Papademos

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

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.
Julia Gillard

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

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

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

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.
Roald Dahl

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?
Dyan Cannon

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
Georgios A. Papandreou

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

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