Europe Quotes - Page 34

• What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

  Peter Mandelson

  Jobs, Home, Safety

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

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

  Herman Gorter

  Mean, Class, Perspective

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• In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  America, Perspective, Principles

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Cards, World

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• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, People, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

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• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Two

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• The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Trying, World

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• The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

  John Dos Passos

  Running, Country, Ghetto

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Heaven, Earth

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.236

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• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  Dana Delany

  Children, Sunday, Thinking

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• But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

  Romano Prodi

  Real, World, Weight

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• Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Integrity, Inspiration, Heart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Journey, Ideas, Church

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• I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.

  Nina Hagen

  Thinking, Journey, Hair

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Years, World, Pay

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Sea

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Taken, Massachusetts

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

  Heinz Fischer

  Love, Peace, United

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• The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Influential Person, Republic

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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Boss

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

  Michael O'Leary

  Achievement, Ems, Lows

  "What happened when Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary went on Twitter for live Q&A? He crash-landed spectacularly" by Simon Calder, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2013.

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• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  E. Howard Hunt

  War, Heart, Doctrine

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• Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Iron, People

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