Quotes About Europe

Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

Para bien o para mal, a despecho del turco, el francés, el holandés, el inglés y la puta que los parió, España tuvo, durante un siglo y medio, bien agarrados a Europa y al mundo por las pelotas

Praga: capital de la magia y el saber oculto europeos, como cuatro siglos antes lo había sido Toledo...

Los españoles tuvieron una clara superioridad sobre los demás pueblos: su lengua se hablaba en París, en Viena, en Milán, en Turín; sus modas, sus formas de pensar y de escribir subyugaron a las inteligencias italianas, y desde Carlos V hasta el comienzo del reinado de Felipe III España tuvo una consideración de la que carecían los demás pueblos (VOLTAIRE).

España es un país formidable, con una historia maravillosa de creación, de innovación, de continuidad de proyecto… Es el país más inteligible de Europa, pero lo que pasa es que la gente se empeña en no entenderlo (JULIÁN MARÍAS).

el Imperio español incluía Alemania, Austria, Suiza, los Países Bajos, y parte de Francia y de Checoslovaquia. Y

la Constitución de 1978, consensuada por todas —subrayo el todas— las fuerzas políticas y redactada por notables personalidades de todos los registros, había definido la España del futuro con nacionalidades y regiones autónomas, a punto de caramelo para diecisiete autonomías de las más avanzadas de Europa

En 1986 entrábamos en la Comunidad Económica Europea, y el progreso y la modernidad llegaron para quedarse. Alfonso Guerra lo había clavado: A España no la va a reconocer ni la madre que la parió. … Y así fue, y así es todavía.

Por otra parte, conseguir que una sociedad de hidalgos o que pretendía serlo (Hasta los zapateros y los sastres presumen de cristianos viejos y pasean espada al cinto, escribía Quevedo) se pusiera a trabajar en la agricultura, en la ganadería, en el comercio, en las mismas actividades que estaban ya enriqueciendo a los estados más modernos de Europa, era pedir peras al olmo, honradez a un escribano o caridad a un inquisidor.

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.

The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups.

China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.

I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They're way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They're like, 'You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.' They're not, 'Aah, it's not real jazz.'

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Real Madrid are one of the main teams in Europe. They are a team which has won the Champions League the most times, a very good team, and known throughout the whole world as well.

In Europe, I always say that Barcelona and Real Madrid are the ones to look out for.

There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.