European Quotes

• A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Animal
  • Crowd
  • Rome

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • Trader

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thought
  • Instinct
  • Tried

• We have been talking today on how we can send a message to the people in both communities, the Islamic and European, that we need this not to happen again...We strongly hope that people will be now sensible to understand that.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Hope
  • Understand

• No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Designer
  • French
  • European

• Every European, every democratic person, has to condemn these people who wanted to interfere with an electoral campaign, producing suffering for hundreds of people, leaving families broken, without any objective.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Interfere
  • Electoral Campaign

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • Lebanese

• I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • American
  • Career
  • Inspiration

• A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Time
  • May
  • Said

• Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • European

• I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • American
  • Help
  • Comedy

• Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Believe
  • History
  • Forever

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

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Life
  • European
  • Swedish

• Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.

  

  Juan Campodónico Bajofondo
  • Music
  • America
  • Across

• You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.

  

  Amanda Pays
  • Own
  • Fail
  • Chair

• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Art
  • American
  • Elements

• Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.

  

  Juan Campodónico Bajofondo
  • Small
  • City
  • Movement

• For example, European countries have still not yet really opened up their borders to products from these countries, something that is fundamental.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Up
  • Borders
  • Opened

• Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Religion
  • Now
  • Islam

• There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Negotiations
  • Vienna
  • Energy Agency

• The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Consequences
  • Disastrous
  • Widespread

• We believe we are ready to buy heavily on the European and US markets, and we have been considering a number of large facilities that we are planning to buy.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Buy

• The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Countries

• The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • History
  • Conflict
  • Islam

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