Europe Quotes - Page 3

• Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Fate, World

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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• Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Feelings, Century, States

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• The poor are the blacks of Europe.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Poor

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• To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

  Dave Barry

  Sheep, Looks, Like You

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Track

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.

  Liam Fox

  Believe, Pay, Willing

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• There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

  Tim Henman

  Player, Russia, Desire

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• I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  People, Film, Hours

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• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

  Josiah Strong

  Mean, Race, Competition

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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• Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

  Michael Carrick

  Tests, Tough, These Days

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• I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

  John James Audubon

  Children, Husband, Wife

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

  Will Rogers

  Giving Up, Men, Chicago

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Croatia, Want, Entry

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• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Taken, Wish, Say Anything

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• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Plato, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)

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• Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

  Tiny Rowland

  Usa, Yesterday, United States

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• Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

  Juan Carlos I of Spain

  Garden, Cultivation

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• Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Power, Russia, Fuel

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• When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, Firsts, Would Be

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• If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

  James Joyce

  Firsts, Ireland, Ifs

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics

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• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Country, Travel, Workout

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• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Philosophy, America, History

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• Europe is a collection of free countries.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Country, Collections, Free Country

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• The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

  John Monks

  People, Use, Helping

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