Accession Quotes

#1. After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

#2. To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

Harry S. Truman

#3. Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO ... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.

Pierre Pettigrew

#4. Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's.

John Hutton

#5. Enlargement will also be high on the agenda with potential invitations for accession being made at the summit

Anonymous

#6. It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen

#7. Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

Benigno Aquino III

#8. We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#9. This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

Richard Cecil

#11. If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Edward Gibbon

#12. If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

Daniel Webster

#13. Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.

Martin Schulz

#14. The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Elliott Abrams

#15. Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

Victor Hugo

#16. The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

Ali Babacan

#17. And when we kissed in the desert, maybe it started for the wrong reasons ... but it ended with the right ones.

Brynna Gabrielson

#18. Do I want to be right or be happy?

Wayne Dyer

#19. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

George Horace Lorimer

#20. resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into

Philipp Meyer

#21. I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

Clarence Darrow

#22. My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.

Lorena Garcia

#23. Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that."
"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said.

Rachel Caine

#24. Hush, said a wave. Rush, said its fellow

Jamie O'Neill

#25. My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.

John Grisham

#26. We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

Daniel Taylor

#27. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

George Washington