#greece

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


Antonis Samaras


#eurozone #greece #greek #greek people #path

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.


James Theodore Bent


#been #believe #breasts #flows #greece

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


Homer


#family #greece #insult #family

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.


Peer Steinbruck


#case #dealing #deficits #demands #euro

It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she’d scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their grand finale of the summer. Now she looked at him contentedly munching on his Rice Krispies, waiting for the right juncture for launchtime. He looked up at her briefly and smiled, and she realized something important. This was how they both liked it. Though most people felt bonded by conversation, Lena and Bapi were two of a kind who didn’t. They bonded by the routine of just eating cereal together. She promptly forgot her script and went back to her cereal. At one point, when she was down to just milk, Bapi reached over and put his hand on hers. ‘You’re my girl,’ he said. And Lena knew she was.


Ann Brashares


#greece #language #contentment

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?


Roman Payne


#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.


Homer


#death #greece #pride #death

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.


Stephen Gardiner


#architectural #center #civilization #concepts #culture