Famous Quotes & Sayings

We can find all sorts of differences between Japan then and Europe now. But it's a lesson to us all to be on the safe side of an unknown before one acts.

There is no better landmark than the EU

Jose Barroso

There is no Europe without freedom and solidarity,

Charles James Fox

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Charles Darwin

The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Chris Cuomo

You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

Charles Olson

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Benito Mussolini

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Benjamin Disraeli

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

Benjamin Disraeli

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

Alain Badiou

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Net-net, given the sharp U.S. upward revisions to payrolls, for the euro to punch higher to fresh highs is nothing short of spectacular,

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

More people are targeting lower levels in the euro and momentum is picking up,

Ashton Holmes

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

My good friend Simeon Saxe-Coburg is the prime minister who implemented the reforms necessary for Bulgaria's EU accession.

Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so far geographically.

Negative sentiment is expected to weigh on European equities.

NATO's future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

NATO's future is very much at stake, ... NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Eliot Spitzer

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

Edward Heath

Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.

Dominique de Villepin

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

She and another girl just went all over Europe every weekend.

Edward Said

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

We're having a euro recovery at the moment. But it's all momentum and technical trading,

Bashar al-Assad

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

Last year was a year of unprecedented volatility. The euphoria is gone and we're back to reality.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,