Euro Quotes

1. "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. L. R. James

2. "San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
Author: Cecil Beaton

3. "Jittery, neurotic parents don't need any more false scares to piss their pants over. They're already raising their twatty little offspring like mollycoddled prisoners: banned from playing outdoors in case a paedophile ring burrows through the pavement and eats them, locked indoors with nothing but anti-bacterial plasma screens for company, ferried to and from school in spluttering rollcaged tanks. . . Christ, half these kids would view choking to death as a release."
Author: Charlie Brooker

4. "Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)"
Author: Cornel West

5. "Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day."
Author: Daniel Hannan

6. "I love going over to Europe."
Author: David Boreanaz

7. "Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans."
Author: David Duke

8. "During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid."
Author: David Sylvian

9. "To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."
Author: Dee Brown

10. "The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
Author: Emanuel Celler

11. "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 De Vries

12. "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 L. Stimson

13. "I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me."
Author: Henry Miller

14. "We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way."
Author: Ibrahim Rugova

15. "For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S."
Author: Ivan Krastev

16. "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

17. "As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray matter storing memories and ideas in their ordered configurations fired across the gaps, last gaps of mental life. Thoughts on Truth and Will were erased as flesh sloshed soft and limp against alabaster, no more than rotting human fruit."
Author: Janna Levin

18. "British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
Author: Jean Jacques Annaud

19. "Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics."
Author: John P. Kotter

20. "As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter."
Author: Jon Meacham

21. "In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!"
Author: Jonas Mekas

22. "There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists."
Author: Jose Maria Aznar

23. "For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
Author: Kelly Miller

24. "Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe."
Author: Klaus Schulze

25. "I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick."
Author: Magnus Carlsen

26. "As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China."
Author: Marc Faber

27. "Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro."
Author: Mario Monti

28. "The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Author: Mary McCarthy

29. "On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes inhandy."
Author: Meg Cabot

30. "I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values."
Author: Michael Sandel

31. "Noah tomó un sorbo antes de responder. Luego dijo: Alemán, Español, Holandés, Mandarín, y por supuesto, Francés.Impresionante. "Di algo en Alemán" dije, y tomó un trago de la bebida. Era dulce, pero al final fuerte y picante. No estaba segura de gustarme."Scheide" dijo Noah.Decidí darle a la bebida otro trago. "¿Que significa eso?" pregunté, luego tomé un sorbo."Vagina"Casi me ahogué, y cubrí mi boca con mi mano. Después recobré la compostura, hablé: "Encantador. ¿Es todo lo que sabes?""En Alemán, Holandés y Mandarín, sí"Sacudí mi cabeza. ¿Por qué, Noah, sabes la palabra vagina en cada lenguaje?"Porque soy Europeo, y por lo tanto más culto que tú"
Author: Michelle Hodkin

32. "Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young."
Author: Mike Myers

33. "Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance."
Author: Montel Williams

34. "The idea of the European community is never face a war again."
Author: Nana Mouskouri

35. "Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe."
Author: Niki Lauda

36. "Americans are six times more likely to suffer than citizens of Shanghai (China) and Nigeria. In general, citizens of English-speaking nations are twice as likely to suffer as those in mainland Europe. This is extremely unlikely to be anything to do with genes since they share the same genetic stock, and I have argued elsewhere that the reason is Selfish Capitalist governance. Likewise, if you compare rates in Singapore and China, the populations of which also share genes, they are far higher in the (Americanized-Anglicized) Singapore."
Author: Oliver James

37. "Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity."
Author: Oliver Sacks

38. "However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time."
Author: Paul Hoffman

39. "There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis."
Author: Peer Steinbruck

40. "Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup."
Author: Peter Bofinger

41. "It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't."
Author: Philip Hensher

42. "Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition."
Author: Rodney Stark

43. "Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?"
Author: Roman Payne

44. "I think I'm more European in personality."
Author: Sally Kirkland

45. "We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."
Author: Siobhan Davies

46. "Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments."
Author: Temple Grandin

47. "In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer."
Author: Thomas Dooley

48. "[...] little Belgium once again busy at what she does best, tamely offering her battlefield-ready lowlands to boots, hooves, iron wheels, waiting to be first to go under before a future no one in Europe has the clairvoyance to imagine as anything more than an exercise for clerks."
Author: Thomas Pynchon

49. "It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn't have asked for anything more."
Author: Tom Daley

50. "As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance."
Author: Wolfgang Schauble

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