European Quotes

Sometimes it seems to me that certain European leaders want to be more Muslim that the Prophet Mohammad.

Boosting employment and access to training and skills for older workers and the young unemployed is one of the European Union's key objectives.

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

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

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

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

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.