Albania Quotes

• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, Two

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• Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

  Emma Bonino

  Community, Partners, Willing

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• Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

  Fatos Nano

  Doe, Partnership, Structure

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• Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

  Fatos Nano

  Government

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• Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

  Fatos Nano

  Risk, Difficult Times, Difficult

  "Uneasy Albania prepares for elections". www.cnn.com. June 27, 1997.

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• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  Fatos Nano

  Love, Country, Block

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• They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Kings, Men, Primitive

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• Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

  Marni Jackson

  Mom, Mother, Book

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• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  Fatos Nano

  Fighter, Oppression, Knows

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• They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

  Edith Durham

  Past, Goes On, Empires

  "High Albania". Book by Edith Durham, 1909.

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• I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

  Oscar Wilde

  Maps

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• It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

  John Buchan

  Men, Yawning, Might

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.9, e-artnow

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• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

  Dan Jenkins

  Believe, Golf, Three

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• And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

  Alan Furst

  Army, Europe, Greek

  Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

  Masiela Lusha

  Who I Am, Humanitarian, Refugee

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

  Eddie Mair

  Doctors

  "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, January 28, 2008.

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• I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

  Mother Teresa

  America, India, Passports

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

  John Bolton

  Country, Zimbabwe, America

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• [Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

  Paul Newman

  New York, Hamburgers, Difficult

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Switzerland, Germany

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• I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Thinking, Yugoslavia

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