All Quotes

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
‐‐ Bono

Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
‐‐ Flea

Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
‐‐ Gary Locke

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
‐‐ Ishmael Reed

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

Ethnic sensitivity both on-camera and behind it demonstrates a corporate understanding of the benefits of diversity and a genuine respect for the audiences' needs.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.
‐‐ Judith Martin

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.
‐‐ Judith Martin

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
‐‐ E. T. Bell

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
‐‐ Barry Unsworth

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
‐‐ Dave Barry

Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
‐‐ Ellen Terry

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
‐‐ Nigel Rees

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
‐‐ Bobbie Gentry

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Eureka! - I have found it!
‐‐ Archimedes

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.
‐‐ James Buchan

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.
‐‐ Evangelos Venizelos

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

Europe cannot survive another world war.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Europe existed before Britain joined it.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
‐‐ Gijs de Vries

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
‐‐ George Papandreou

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
‐‐ James Reston

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Europe has been in my bones.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

Europe has grown to 27 member states, encompassing an amazing diversity and richness. Some argue this is part of the problem: Europe is simply too big and culturally disparate to be managed properly. But look to India for an example of how social unity can be forged within a culturally, linguistically, and ethnically complex nation.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Europe has such an expansive history.
‐‐ Bill Engvall