European Quotes

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. (José Mourinho)
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. View quote
Mary McCarthy
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. View quote
Denis Diderot
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. View quote
John Boyd Orr
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it. View quote
Goran Visnjic
The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up. View quote
George Gershwin
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. (George S. Patton)
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself. View quote
Norman Angell
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc. View quote
Annie Besant
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. View quote
Wim Wenders
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum. View quote
Tony Blair
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. View quote
Michel Patini
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past. View quote
Michel Patini
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. View quote
Ulrich Beck
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. (Ulrich Beck)
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. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. View quote
James Henry Breasted
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport. View quote
Jack Kemp