Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Cooper

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Gerhard Schroder

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Gerhard Schroder

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

Gerhard Schroder

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

Gerhard Schroder

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Herman Melville

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

Jens Stoltenberg

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

Jeffrey Tate

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

Jeffrey Sachs

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

James Buchan

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

James Buchan

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James A. Baldwin

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

Jacqueline Bisset

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

Hannah Arendt

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

Gore Vidal

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Harvey Weinstein

I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

Harold Rosenberg

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Jacques Delors

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Jacques Delors

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

Jacques Delors

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

Jacques Delors

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Jacques Chirac

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

Jacques Chirac

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

James Callaghan

If Britain becomes a member of the Community, it will be healthier for Britain, advantageous for Europe, and a gain for the whole world. I do not know of many economic or political problems in the world which will be easier to solve if Britain is outside rather than inside the Community.

Goran Persson

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Gijs de Vries

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

Gijs de Vries

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Gijs de Vries

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Harriet Martineau

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

I don't think (the grand coalition) is going to prove that positive for the euro over the short, medium or longer run,

Harry Redknapp

I'd love to have seen one of them get the job...give it to any of them and I'd fancy us to win the (2008) European championship when they do take over from Eriksson because the players are so good.