“So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.” WayHappensSurpriseOne WayGreekDefault Author:Lucas Papademos
“I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.” PeopleThinkingWayBeliefShareAchieveAreasFundamentalsConvincedPermanentGreekEuroCompetitivenessConsolidation Author:Lucas Papademos
“When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.” KnowsWorldWayHas BeensKidsMythBunchGreekZeusAthenaBradyGreek MythBrady Bunch Author:George Saunders
“For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).” MenWayLooksShowsChristianPassionChristDifferencesPerfectAttentionFemaleSlaveMalesJewTyrannyGreekFixedOrthodoxDispositionSummitOrthodox ChristianRisenNature Of ManCfsUnbelieversGalsHe Has Risen Author:Maximus the Confessor
“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingPlayChildhoodWoundsHorribleGreekAssumptionOperaOld FashionedCatharsis Author:Sarah Ruhl
“Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.” WayWritingSeemsRaceGreekSay AnythingLike SomethingCelts Book:Many long years ago Source: Many long years ago