Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orhan Pamuk

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

Olli Rehn

Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.

Omar Bongo

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

Lasse Hallstrom

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

John Kasich

First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe.

John Kasich

Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.

John Kasich

For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies.

Lionel Jospin

I do not separate France from Europe.

Lionel Barber

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Lindsay Davenport

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

Lindsay Davenport

No. At the States we get no matches that are played in Europe on TV.

Jonathan Sacks

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

Percy Heath

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

Rachel Bilson

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Simon Jenkins

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.

Rem Koolhaas

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

Timothy Radcliffe

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Timothy Radcliffe

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

Tom Verlaine

There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

Russell Means

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Romano Prodi

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Roy Hattersley

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

Susan Rice

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Segolene Royal

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Shimon Peres

We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

Lee Majors

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Laurent Fabius

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.