Europe Quotes - Page 35

• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

  Gloria Swanson

  Firsts, Marrying

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• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  Marc Almond

  Good Day, Thinking, One Day

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

  Pierre Laval

  Trying, Holding On, Given

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

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• The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

  David Cameron

  Energy, Economy, Efficient

  www.publications.parliament.uk. March 8, 2016.

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• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  Pierre Laval

  War, Winning, Russia

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

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• Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Army, Office

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• Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

  Dennis Prager

  Government, United States, Decline

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• Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

  Milan Kundera

  Important, Toil, Fruit

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• The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Wings, Storm

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

  Winston Churchill

  Dream, Hope, Tasks

  "The United States of Europe". The Saturday Evening Post (February 15, 1930), later quoted in "The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Volume II: Churchill and Politics" (p. 184), 1976.

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• I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

  Marian Anderson

  Artist, Doubt, Gone

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Joining, Way, Chance

  "Chirac Lashes Out at 'New Europe'". edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Government, Aggravation

  Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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• I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

  Jacques Delors

  Aggravation, France, Decline

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• Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Home, Financial, Found

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• The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

  Don Howe

  Prayer, Struggle, Problem

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• No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Chinese, India

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• The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Government, Agreement, Numbers

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Cities

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Curiosity, Trade

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.32, Library of America

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• If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

  Wendell Willkie

  Power, Events, Germany

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• I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Home, Successful

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3332, e-artnow

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• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Political, United States, Today

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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