Best Europeans Quotations
189 Europeans quotes by 158 unique authors
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My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I…
— Jo Nesbo
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Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they beat…
— Lamin Sanneh
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible…
— Mark Steyn
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Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough…
— David Pryce-Jones
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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
— Jennifer O'Neill
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The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for…
— Sonny Rollins
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
— Brent Scowcroft
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The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
— Brent Scowcroft
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The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
— Dominique de Villepin
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China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.
— Dominique de Villepin
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is…
— Daniel Yergin
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy,…
— Dave Barry
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The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away…
— Andrew Bogut
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The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster…
— Antony Beevor
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Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.
— Traian Basescu
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead…
— Ally Carter
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
— Asia Argento
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The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
— Francois Fillon
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly…
— Bart Gordon
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to…
— Stana Katic
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The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach…
— Chinua Achebe
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in…
— Tom Ford
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