Top 1200 European History Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.

I eat tall, chinny, Eastern European heavyweights for breakfast.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's like Picasso, it's like Mondrian - it's not. Art's supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn't really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

For 'Portillo's Hidden History of Britain,' I arranged to meet men and women who were witnesses to history - ordinary people who were caught up in extraordinary events.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

If I become a European champion, I don't care whether I have absolute recognition or not.

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

We need to curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the U.K.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

Neymar is a phenomenon. He adapted to European football very quickly.

When I started, I learned the European style because that's what I wrestled the most.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

It is tough to find a European club with the kind of infrastructure that Corinthians have.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing.