Europe Quotes

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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

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

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.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

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.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

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

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

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

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

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

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

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.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

We in Europe have great capacities.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

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

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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.

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

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

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.

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?

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

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

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

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

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