Top 1200 European History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.

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

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.

The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

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

The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

On the pitch, my first tournament, the European Championship in England in 2005, was special.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.

We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

My first projects were mostly European commercials and music videos.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

We've always had to play second fiddle to the men in European football.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

If we can get Hibs into European football it would be massive for everyone involved.

We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.

Any club that wins the European Cup gives it more credence.

In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.