Europe Quotes

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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

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

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

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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.

Paris is the café of Europe.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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.

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

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

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

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.

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

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

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

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

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

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

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

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

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

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

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