Greek Quotes

• "Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

  

  George Michael
  • Greek
  • Real Name
  • Abbreviation

• The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Why
  • Democracy
  • German

• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Country
  • Torture
  • Hopelessness

• I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Eyes

• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • American
  • Just

• I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

  

  Eric Bana
  • School
  • Wish
  • Study

• Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Person
  • German
  • Nations

• Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

  

  Lord Acton
  • World
  • Nature
  • Greek

• Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

  

  John Berger
  • Time
  • Political
  • Greek

• The Greek word apocalypsis means a “revealing” or an “unveiling.” Scholars have called this view apocalyptic because its proponents believed that God had revealed or unveiled to them the heavenly secrets that could make sense of the realities they were experiencing—many of them nasty and ugly—here on earth. One

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Believed
  • Realities

• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Voice
  • Accident
  • Flame

• She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • She
  • Dark
  • Color

• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • World
  • Education
  • Doubt

• My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

  

  James Cronin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Greek

• I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Patience
  • Greek

• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Done
  • Influence
  • Critics

• If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Greek

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek

• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Children
  • Rest

• When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300, and they said you cannot use it because it is taken. Pegasus Funds. Then we said Pegasus is kind of a horse. We did not want to be the Unicorn Fund. So we pulled out a horse book.

  

  David Tepper
  • Book
  • Taken
  • Horse

• All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Think
  • Nice

• We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • American
  • War
  • Death

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