Europe Quotes - Page 29

• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

  Aldrich Ames

  Gdp, Invasion, Arguing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

  Harvey Cox

  Christian, America, West

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

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Whales, Spain, Shore

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• We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

  Siobhan Davies

  Artist, Our World, Skills

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• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  War, Achievement, Liberty

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• We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Machines, Becoming, Grind

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• Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

  Emma Bonino

  Destiny, Unions, Kosovo

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• Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

  Peter Hammill

  Song, Couple, People

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• When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Teacher, Distance, Years

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hate, Circles, Madness

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, People

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• In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

  Helmut Jahn

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

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• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Taken, America

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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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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• I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

  Hillary Clinton

  Fans, Social, Policy

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• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

  Lee Konitz

  Night, Car, Six

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• Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

  Tom Lantos

  Auschwitz, Guantanamo Bay, Outraged

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• Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

  Sigrid Undset

  Father

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• Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

  Peter Hain

  Order, Tasks, Creation

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Powerful, Yugoslavia, May

  "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.

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• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Agreement, Broken, Determined

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• Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Looks, Veils

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