Eleftherios Venizelos Quotes

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

History is not intelligible without geography.

Our geographical position wills it that we have Germany for a neighbor.

Geography determines the course of history.

I would never suggest that the geography or visual environment of the film is more important than what's going on with the people, but it's a major factor in getting the right tone. Certainly, it influences the actors tremendously.

Without geography you're nowhere.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Geography is destiny.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

I've never even been to Long Island

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.