G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.”
“Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Greatness through truth.”
“Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.”
“Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.”
“Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”
“Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.”
Source: The substance of man
“Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.”
Source: Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind
“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”
“Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!”
“Greats are great because they believe in what they say, and say what they believe in.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Greats are great only because they believe in what they say, sand say what they believe in.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Grecia había sido luminosa, pero muerta.”
Source: Maurice
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.”
“Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance”
Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson
“Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.”
“Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.”
“Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone - how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this.”
“Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.”
“Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.”
“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.”
“Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.”
“Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“Greece is a good place for rebirths.”
Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners
“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 a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.”
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
“Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!”
“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.”
“Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.”
“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.”
Source: The Magus
“Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.”
Source: The water beetle
“Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.”
“Greece is not an easy country to do business in.”
“Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.”
“Greece is the most magical place on Earth.”
“Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter”
“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.”
“Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.”
“Greece's bailout, then Ireland's, then Portgual's, then Spain's were primarily rescue packages for French and German banks.”
Source: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
“Greece’s children, stars scattered over distant shores, connected by the one heartbeat, they dream the same dream. Distanced and sometimes displaced, yet strong enough to hold up the sky.”
Source: Beneath the Fig Leaves
“Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.”
“Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.”
“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.”
“Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.”
“Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.”
“Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.”
“Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime”