Quotes of: European-nations Keyword

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

Jim Leach

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Francois Hollande

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

Zubin Mehta

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Jose Mourinho

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

John Hutton

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

James Joyce

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Edward James Olmos

We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today.

John Monks

True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

Ivan Krastev

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

David Lauren

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Gavin Bryars

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Wim Wenders

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Robert Mugabe

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory.

Victor Ponta