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European Quotes & Sayings
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I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.
— David Cameron
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
— Russell Baker
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
His idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy.
— Neal Stephenson
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
— Ann Demeulemeester
There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.
— Pat Buchanan
A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.
— Tim Harford
Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.
— Massimo Carlotto
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.
— Mikheil Saakashvili
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European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
— Thomas P. Campbell
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
— Lord Robertson
In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin.
— Jon Oringer
The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
— Emma Goldman
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
— Jose Mourinho
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
— Lasse Hallstrom
We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
Thank you for riding the European Federation Maglev Train,
— Marissa Meyer
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
— Dominique De Villepin
Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.
— Bill Bryson
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
— Rashida Jones
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
— Joschka Fischer
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
— Jason Winston George
I think I'm more European in personality.
— Sally Kirkland
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
— Olga Kurylenko
We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.
— Guy Verhofstadt
The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.
— Michael Gove
There is no 'European people' united by common mores.
— George Will
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.
— David Letterman
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil,
— Iain Gately
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
— Mark Twain
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
— Joschka Fischer
At Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
— Don DeLillo
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
— William Dean Howells
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
— Albert Einstein
I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.
— Michael Gove
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America, nothing will ever be the same.
— Romano Prodi
I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
— Frank B. Kellogg
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
— Angela Merkel
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.
— David Letterman
I am a very committed European.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
— Baltasar Kormakur
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
— Alexis Tsipras
I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).
— Brett Kiellerop-Morris
A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
— Phyllis Schlafly
I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.
— David Archuleta
Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.
— Sergei Lavrov
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
— Bill Condon
My body has never been to Europe. My mind has never left it.
— Brian Spellman
European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
— John Bruton
European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.
— Umberto Eco
Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
— David Walton
We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.
— Jean-Claude Juncker
We are a European nation - must stay one.
— David Miliband
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
— J.M. Coetzee
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
— Michael Gove
We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.
— Angela Merkel
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
— Roman Payne
Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European Enlightenment is more important than people.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.
— Michael Gove
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
— Sergio Leone
