Europe Quotes - Page 36

• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Journey, Ideas, Church

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• I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.

  Nina Hagen

  Thinking, Journey, Hair

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Years, World, Pay

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Sea

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Taken, Massachusetts

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

  Heinz Fischer

  Love, Peace, United

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• The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Influential Person, Republic

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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Boss

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

  Michael O'Leary

  Achievement, Ems, Lows

  "What happened when Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary went on Twitter for live Q&A? He crash-landed spectacularly" by Simon Calder, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2013.

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• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  E. Howard Hunt

  War, Heart, Doctrine

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• Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Iron, People

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

  Gloria Swanson

  Firsts, Marrying

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• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  Marc Almond

  Good Day, Thinking, One Day

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

  Pierre Laval

  Trying, Holding On, Given

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

  David Cameron

  Energy, Economy, Efficient

  www.publications.parliament.uk. March 8, 2016.

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• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  Pierre Laval

  War, Winning, Russia

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Army, Office

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• Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

  Dennis Prager

  Government, United States, Decline

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• Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

  Milan Kundera

  Important, Toil, Fruit

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• The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Wings, Storm

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

  Winston Churchill

  Dream, Hope, Tasks

  "The United States of Europe". The Saturday Evening Post (February 15, 1930), later quoted in "The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Volume II: Churchill and Politics" (p. 184), 1976.

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• I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

  Marian Anderson

  Artist, Doubt, Gone

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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