Europe Quotes - Page 30

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Marc Maron

Television, Levels, Appearance

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If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

James Forrestal

War, Lying, Losing

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When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Diversity, Live For Today, Needs

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A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

Marc Cherry

Men, Complaining, He Man

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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Maggie Gallagher

Sex, Ideas, Dying

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Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.

Paul Krugman

Hands, Opposites, Justice

"Learning From Europe" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2010.

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HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

Ambrose Bierce

Lasts, Bitterness, Century

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.84, 谷月社

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I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

Government, Lessons, Draws

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Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

Thomas Sowell

People, Slavery, Libertarian

"Random Thoughts". townhall.com. October 16, 2012.

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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.

Charles A. Murray

Other Cultures, Civilization, Accomplishment

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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

Mark Steyn

People, Liberty, Gone

Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

Filip Dewinter

Fighting, Liberty, Culture

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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Joschka Fischer

Believe, Ideas, Balance

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The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Herb Ritts

Thinking, United States, Different

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The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Joschka Fischer

Issues, People, Election

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I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.

Lee Westwood

Cups, Golfers, Said

"Lee Westwood: 'The Ryder Cup excitement is a lot more intense'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2010.

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When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.

Woody Allen

New York, Psychology, Want

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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

Curt Sachs

Dance, Country, Loss

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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

Jamake Highwater

Dance, Gay, Doors

Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA

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Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

Two, Done, Way

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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

Irwin Shaw

Literature, Comeback

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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

Lucas Papademos

Politician, Economic, Dedicated

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I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

Sepp Blatter

Sports, Football, Thinking

"Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Antonio Tabucchi

Country, Mean, Expression

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I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

Kurt Loder

Years, Yellow, Literature

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