Best European Sayings
863 European quotes by 641 unique authors
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I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.
— George Best
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The…
— Isaac Todhunter
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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
— Friedrich Engels
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I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater…
— Juha Vaatainen
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
— Albert Einstein
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates…
— Michael Leunig
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My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of…
— Unknown Author
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There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5 billion.
— Tony Blair
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
— Mary McCarthy
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.
— Phil Neville
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Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time…
— Unknown Author
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Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.
— Ron Greenwood
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By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in…
— George Soros
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It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes…
— Adolf Hitler
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
— Alexander Hamilton
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their…
— Michael Parenti
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation…
— Muhammad Ali
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I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
— Unknown Author
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