Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick the Great

Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

Frederick the Great

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Johnny Ramone

Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

John Bruton

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

John Bright

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

Luther Allison

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

We see European markets opening the week flat. A lot of interest has surrounded silver, which has opened the week at record highs.

Bo Burnham

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

The truth does not lie with the Human Rights Watch. It lies with Poland, Romania and all the governments in Europe which might have information about these activities.

It's an exercise in futility, because Europeans still have their rights under their national laws.

It's hard to be absolutist. I think the American experience is different than the European experience.

The U.S. Treasury market will outperform their European counterparts. The yield spread is making Treasuries more attractive.

Thomas Jefferson

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

Rick Santorum

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

Sylvia Plath

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

Sylvia Plath

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

Swami Vivekananda

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

Tim Cahill

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

William Merritt Chase

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

William J. Clinton

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

Ulrich Beck

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Umberto Eco

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

Richard Perle

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Richard Perle

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Richard Hofstadter

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.

Thomas Sowell

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

Robert Anton Wilson

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."