Europeans Quotes

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.