Europe Quotes - Page 38

• We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Teach, European Union, Euro

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• If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.

  Gisela Stuart

  Reflection, Drawing, People

  Gisela Stuart (2003). “The Making of Europe's Constitution”

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• This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

  Jacques Chirac

  Example, Faster, Engines

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• Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Liberty, Your Future, Our Future

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• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Peter Mandelson

  Squares, Insecurity, Pressure

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Nice, America

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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• But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

  Marc Newson

  Being Yourself, Originals

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• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  Malcolm X

  Art, Stars, Men

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• During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Sleep, Italian, President

  "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Order, Leader, Political

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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• In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

  Marc Maron

  Names, Special, Stills

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• Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

  Joe Cocker

  Galloping

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

  Barack Obama

  America, Appreciate, Challenges

  Barack Obama's Remarks at Strasbourg Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2009.

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Lovely, Firsts

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Europe And America, Discovery, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  Sally Kirkland

  Sexy, Older Women, Sophia

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• When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

  Gore Vidal

  Race, Order, Years

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today

  Ismail Serageldin

  Tolerance, Democracy, Needs

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• Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

  Paul Smith

  Philosophy, America, Long

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• I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

  Henry Rollins

  Independent, Blow, America

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• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  Maximilian Schell

  Energy, Entertainment, Moral

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Silence, Breaking Down, Preamble

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• Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

  Josiah Strong

  Aristocracy, Scientism

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Men, Hands

  On Gladstone's last appointment as Prime Minister, in a letter to Lord Lansdowne, 12 August 1892

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• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Growing Up, Years, Germany

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