Quotes of: Cyprus Keyword

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

Ali Babacan

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

Ali Babacan

The people of Cyprus have sent a strong message... of stability, credibility and change.

Nicos Anastasiades

Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Tea Obreht

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

Nicos Anastasiades

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

Nicos Anastasiades

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

Hans Blix

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Joe Biden

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Zac Goldsmith

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one an...

In an Enchanted Island Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at the last minute they transferred me, despite the fact that I spoke not a word of Greek. I learned the very basics, and...

Julia Quinn

Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in s...

In an Enchanted Island Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled m...

On Kingship to the King of Cyprus

And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous and delicate, its aerial perspectives are even more wide and profo...

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had both been born in Cyprus. The most extreme Irish Rep...

Hitch-22: A Memoir