Spain Quotes - Page 7

• We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

  Federica Montseny

  People, Feelings, Libertarian

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• Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Congratulations, Government, Names

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• If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Kings, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 3, as translated by RM Adams, 1513.

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• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Population, Privilege

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• If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Determination, Winning

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• Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Children, Germany, Austria

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  Salvador Dali

  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• I played football for seven years in Spain and was called everything because I was from South America, and I never went out crying like a baby, like Patrice Evra, saying that someone had said something to me.

  Gus Poyet

  Football, Baby, Years

  "FA makes powerful statement with Luis Suárez's suspension" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Want, Norway, Should

  Carl I. Hagen's speech at a local Progress Party chapter in Alfaz del Pi, Spain, April 21, 2006.

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• Your street, rich street or poor
  Used to always be sure, on your street
  There's a place in your heart you know from the start
  Can't be complete outside of the street
  Keep moving on through the joy and the pain
  Sometimes you got to look back
  To the street again
  Would you prefer all those castles in Spain?
  Or the view of your street from your window pane?

  Van Morrison

  Pain, Moving, Heart

  "Song: 'The Street Only Knew Your Name' ('Inarticulate Speech of the Heart')". 1983.

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• Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Russia, Eden

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• In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Football, Sex, Player

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.

  Jared Diamond

  Christian, Kings, Pride

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Turkeys, India

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

  Jorge Valdano

  Player, Self, Waiting

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• Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.

  Jose Antonio Camacho

  Believe, Play, Style

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• I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Madrid, Jersey, Cuba

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

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• Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Use, Unions

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• I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

  Paz Vega

  Husband, Son, Littles

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• The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.

  Antonio Guterres

  Country, Differences, Korea

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• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Europe, Whales, Shore

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."

  Ferdinand Columbus

  Men, Sea, Land

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• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Business, Feet

  "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.

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