Quotes About Europe

In Europe and FIBA, the game is a little slower and the court is a little smaller.

Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

The case can be made that the introduction of caffeine to Europe in the seventeenth century fostered a new, more rational (and sober) way of thinking that helped give rise to the age of reason and the Enlightenment.

A decadência da Europa nos oferece um espectáculo imenso cujos momentos mais fortes são omitidos ou são dispensados. O próprio da cena em que nos encontramos hoje é representar um teatro; sem monumentos que sejam nossa obra e que nos pertençam, nós vivemos cercados de cenários. Mas há mais: o europeu não sabe quem ele é; ele ignora que raças se misturam nele; ele procura que papel poderia ter; ele não tem individualidade.

Algorithmic thought arose before the invention of geometry in Greece, and reemerged in Europe with Pascal and Leibniz, who invented two calculating machines and, like Thumbelina, used pseudonyms.

Perhaps Bolm thought that, faced with all this, Eugenia would be cured of her obsession. Instead, she saw only India's enchantments. She was, she writes, "[h]appy beyond measure to be there." Europe would never feel like home again.

The mind has the ability to talk to itself, but it also has the ability to hear information that is available from other realms. Sometimes you hear a voice in your mind, and you may wonder where it came from. This voice may have come from another reality in which there are living beings very similar to the human mind. The Toltecs called these beings Allies. In Europe, Africa, and India they called them the Gods.

He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced that they had discovered the road to paradise.

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind's fateful inexperience, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

Mas no seu processo contra a Europa, Sartre disse bem o que representavam essas coisas, os valores: os nossos queridos valores perdem as asas; olhando-os de perto, não descobriremos um só que não esteja manchado de sangue; os valores manchados deixam de ser valores; o espírito do processo é a sua redução de tudo à moral; é o nihilismo absoluto perante tudo o que seja trabalho, arte, obra.

KtoÅ›, kto sobie wyobra?a, ?e re?ymy komunistyczne w Europie Å›rodkowej sÄ… wyÅ'Ä…cznie dzieÅ'em zbrodniarzy, nie zdaje sobie sprawy z podstawowej prawdy: zbrodnicze re?ymy zostaÅ'y stworzone nie przez zbrodniarzy, ale przez entuzjastów, przekonanych, ?e odkryli jedynÄ… drogÄ™ prowadzÄ…cÄ… do raju.

Since the days of the French Revolution, one half of Europe has been referred to as the left, the other half as the right. Yet to define one or the other by means of the theoretical principles it professes is all but impossible. And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.

SavaÅŸ ve kültür Avrupa'n?n iki kutbudur, cennet ve cehennemi, zaferi ve utanc?d?r, ama onlar? birbirinden ay?ramazs?n. Birine bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunda ötekine de olacakt?r, birlikte yok olacaklard?r. Elli y?ld?r Avrupa'da savaÅŸ olmamas?, elli y?ld?r hiçbir Picasso'nun ç?kmamas? olgusuyla gizemli biçimde ilintilidir.

I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

Protestants had a special appetite for witch trials; over 90 percent of the trials took place in Protestant lands.

The church, said Calvin, is not subject to secular government except in obviously secular matters. On the other hand, the church has the obligation under the sovereign God, to guide the secular authorities in spiritual matters. Such a vision sent Calvin's followers throughout Europe as a spiritual conspiracy seeking the overthrow of false religion and restrictive governments.

That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a big fire-sale, the whole rutten thing.

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.