300 Quotes on Europe

• Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

  Author: Israel Zangwill

• If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• 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.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

  Author: Noah Webster

• Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

  Author: George Washington

• Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

  Author: Robert Walpole

• I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

  Author: Alexander Walker

• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• 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.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• 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.

  Author: Ville Valo

• And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

  Author: John Tesh

• She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

  Author: John Synge

• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

  Author: George Soros

• Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

  Author: Peter Singer

• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Author: Shel Silverstein

• In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

  Author: Ron Silver

• 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.

  Author: Hu Shih

• There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

  Author: Mark Shields

• Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

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

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  Author: Harry Seidler

• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

  Author: Frank Scott

• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Author: Howard Schultz

• I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  Author: Maximilian Schell

• We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

  Author: Maximilian Schell

• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• You can't build Europe against anyone.

  Author: Jacques Santer

• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

  Author: R. Rowland

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  Author: Harold Rosenberg

• Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• 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.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

  Author: James Reston

• The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

  Author: Richard Reeves

• More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

  Author: Anders Rasmussen

• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• 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.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

  Author: Sun Ra

• In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

  Author: Anthony Quinn

• We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

  Author: Suzi Quatro

• I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.

  Author: Georgi Purvanov

• Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

  Author: Romano Prodi

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

  Author: Romano Prodi

• The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

  Author: John Prescott

• Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

  Author: John Pistole

• I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.

  Author: Nelson Piquet

• Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

  Author: Goran Persson

• And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

  Author: Philippe Perrin

• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

  Author: Richard Perle

• We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

  Author: Richard Perle

• 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.

  Author: Gordon Parks

• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  Author: Jack Osbourne

• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  Author: William Odom

• In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

  Author: William Odom

• I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

  Author: Barack Obama

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

  Author: Yannick Noah

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

  Author: Yannick Noah

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  Author: Florence Nightingale

• An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

  Author: Brigitte Nielsen

• My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

  Author: Claude Nicollier

• People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

  Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

• Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

  Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

• There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

• Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

  Author: Mike Myers

• Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

  Author: Mike Myers

• Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

  Author: Mike Myers

• When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

  Author: Mike Myers

• We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

  Author: Andrew Morton

• In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

  Author: Mario Monti

• There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

  Author: Mario Monti

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

  Author: James Monroe

• The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

  Author: John Monks

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

  Author: 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.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

  Author: Prince Metternich

• I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

  Author: Stjepan Mesic

• Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.

  Author: Stjepan Mesic

• In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

  Author: Christine McVie

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

  Author: Vince McMahon

• We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

  Author: A. McLean

• With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

  Author: David McCullough

• The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

  Author: David McCallum

• I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Author: Jackie Mason

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Author: Karl Marx

• There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

  Author: Karl Marx

• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  Author: Harriet Martineau

• And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

  Author: George Martin

• I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

  Author: Lee Majors

• In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

  Author: Henry Maine

• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  Author: James Madison

• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

  Author: Alison Lurie

• I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

  Author: Louis Louis XIV

• Does this boat go to Europe, France?

  Author: Anita Loos

• The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.

  Author: Huey Lewis

• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Author: Joseph Lelyveld

• I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

  Author: Henry Lawson

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  Author: David Lawrence

• I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

  Author: Pierre Laval

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

  Author: Pierre Laval

• I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

  Author: Pierre Laval

• It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

  Author: Pierre Laval

• Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

  Author: Niki Lauda

• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Author: Niki Lauda

• Europe cannot survive another world war.

  Author: Christian Lange

• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Author: Christian Lange

• Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

  Author: Christian Lange

• It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

  Author: Lee Konitz

• You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

  Author: Helmut Kohl

• Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

  Author: Horst Koehler

• I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

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

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• 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.

  Author: John Kellogg

• I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.

  Author: Robert Kagan

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Author: Carl Jung

• In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• I do not separate France from Europe.

  Author: Lionel Jospin

• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  Author: Quincy Jones

• Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

  Author: Harry Johnston

• Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Author: Henry James

• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  Author: C. James

• In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  Author: Eddie Izzard

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  Author: Jack Irons

• We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

  Author: Laura Ingraham

• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.

  Author: John Hutton

• The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

  Author: John Hutton

• Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

  Author: John Hutton

• Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's.

  Author: John Hutton

• But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

  Author: John Hutton

• But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.

  Author: John Hutton

• We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.

  Author: John Hutton

• We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

  Author: Kay Hutchison

• The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

  Author: Lamar Hunt

• 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.

  Author: E. Hunt

• We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

  Author: Johan Huizinga

• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

  Author: Johan Huizinga

• Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

  Author: Robert Howard

• You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

  Author: John Hooker

• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

  Author: Roald Hoffmann

• The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

  Author: John Hoeven

• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

  Author: Billy Higgins

• The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

  Author: Gustav Heinemann

• I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

  Author: Percy Heath

• Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

  Author: Lee Hazlewood

• If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

  Author: Lee Hazlewood

• 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.

  Author: W. Harriman

• I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

  Author: W. Harriman

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  Author: W. Harriman

• We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

  Author: W. 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.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  Author: W. Harriman

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

  Author: W. Harriman

• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Author: Alice Hamilton

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

  Author: Nina Hagen

• In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

  Author: Jurgen Habermas

• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

  Author: David Gurion

• The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

  Author: Edward Grey

• From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

  Author: Edward Grey

• I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

  Author: Edward Grey

• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  Author: Harold Greene

• As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

  Author: Andrew Greeley

• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  Author: Spalding Gray

• Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

  Author: Norman Granz

• I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

  Author: Norman Granz

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