Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

Edward James Olmos

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Edward Gibbon

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

Eddie Izzard

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

David Duke

More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

Bobby Miller

Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.

Ben Bernanke

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Daniel Hannan

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

Daniel Hannan

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts are hard to reconcile with the idea of European integration.

There is a reluctance to push the euro/dollar higher because of riots in France and pressure from euro zone finance ministers not to raise rates.

There are players, including hedge funds and pension funds, establishing new longs in the euro at the start of the year.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

We hope after Turkey to go to other countries. Maybe it is the first step to Europe and the West.

Jean Monnet

Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.

Brad Feld

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Jan Peter Balkenende

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Jan Peter Balkenende

The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Antonis Samaras

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Derek Bok

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Denis MacShane

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Charles de Gaulle

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Dianna Agron

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

Diane von Furstenberg

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

Dexter Gordon

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Dave Barry

To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

C. L. R. James

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.