Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Miller

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Kelly Miller

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

Paula McLain

On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.

Peter L. Berger

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

Paz Vega

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

Phil Collins

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Peter Camejo

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

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.

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.

Timothy Garton Ash

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

Timothy Garton Ash

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

Timothy Garton Ash

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

Timothy Garton Ash

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

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."

Sri Aurobindo

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ , the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

Roger Michell

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

Sam Torrance

Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

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.

Ville Valo

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

Victor Ponta

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

Victor Ponta

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Vinod Khosla

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.