Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vaclav Klaus

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

Vaclav Klaus

The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.

Stanley Baldwin

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

Spider Robinson

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

Spike Lee

This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.

Kelly Miller

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Kelly Miller

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

James Nesbitt

Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

James Monroe

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

James Madison

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

Tim Cahill

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

Ville Valo

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

Ronald Wright

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.

Romola Garai

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Travis Barker

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

Rick Derringer

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Tony Visconti

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Vince McMahon

In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

Maggie Gallagher

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Madame de Stael

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

Julius Streicher

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

Otto von Bismarck

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Otto von Bismarck

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Oskar Lafontaine

We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.

Yannick Noah

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

Wim Wenders

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Wim Wenders

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Warren Farrell

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

W. Averell Harriman

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

W. Averell Harriman

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.