Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lafcadio Hearn

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Kazuo Ishiguro

All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.

Margaret Thatcher

Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No!

Margaret Thatcher

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

Margaret Thatcher

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Margaret Thatcher

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

Margaret Thatcher

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

Peter Mandelson

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

Peter Mandelson

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it...

Peter Mandelson

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

Plutarch

Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

Segolene Royal

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Marc Ribot

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Marc Newson

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Marc Newson

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

Marc Newson

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

Marc Newson

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Marc Newson

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Marc Newson

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Marc Maron

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

Marc Maron

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Lasse Hallstrom

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

John Kasich

First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe.

John Kasich

Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.

John Kasich

For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies.

Lionel Jospin

I do not separate France from Europe.

Lindsay Davenport

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

Lindsay Davenport

No. At the States we get no matches that are played in Europe on TV.

Peter Camejo

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

Kenzaburo Oe

The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Laurent Fabius

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

Laurent Fabius

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.