Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

Charles C. Mann

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

Bill McKibben

Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.

Madeleine Albright

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Madeleine Albright

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Charles Lyell

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

Charles Krauthammer

The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

Charles Krauthammer

It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, 'Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff.

Unless there is serious reform there, the euro won't regain investor confidence.

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Carol P. Christ

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

When everybody is euphoric it's usually a sign that the market is about to run out of steam.

When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes

We started getting inquiries from Europe as soon as the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Carl Honore

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Alan Furst

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

While tire pricing remains strong, high raw material prices and potentially weak high-margin markets (North American and European replacement truck tire markets) could provide offsets.

Kofi Annan

At this stage the European Union is not involved,

The last 24 hours were the worst setback for reform hopes in Europe in a long time.

The interest is great, not just in Scotland but all over Europe they are talking about the way Hearts have started.

Jacques Chirac

Once again, we have shown the French-German motor, which is so important for European integration, works well,

On a short-term trading view the euro looks pretty awful,

It's really, really popular, especially in some European countries. They have tournaments on full-size courses.

In many places in Europe you do have a sense of intelligent development. That's rare in Colorado.

Tom Renney

I learned a highly valuable lesson in Vancouver about European players. You have to give your stars . . . the latitude to do extraordinary things.

Miuccia Prada

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.

Lawrence Summers

In Europe, the stronger growth and reductions in unemployment are now arriving, ... But for better performance to endure, Europe will require substantial structural reforms.

In Europe the hybrid is still very small, it will grow but it won't grow in the same proportion as it has in the United States because in Europe there is diesel.

Is this the right message to be sending to taxpayers in America, Russia, Europe and Japan -- that it's OK to do a stunt like this?

The U.S. is under the false impression that it is the leader in mobile communications and non-PC devices, ... Europe and Japan have a considerable lead over the U.S. and this gap could widen in the future.