Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, —the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.