European Monetary Union Quotes

#1. The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

Nigel Lawson

#2. ...we might be nothing more than the dreams of our ancestors, returning always to those horrors too great to resolve.

Liam Howley

#3. Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons

Iccho Itoh

#4. So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

Jack McDevitt

#5. The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

George Papandreou

#6. The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous ... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

Eric S. Raymond

#7. Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Barry Eichengreen

#8. Hyperbole is an excellent red flag on the route to real wisdom.

Caroline Webb

#9. The ambassador was part of the special remedial dating program," Jeeves explained. "All of the other species on the station sign up with a dating service to find their best match, but some humans can't coherently describe what they want for breakfast, much less for the rest of their lives.

E.M. Foner

#10. Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Tyler Drumheller

#12. It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

Vaclav Klaus

#13. The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom.

Subhan Zein

#14. When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

Mason Cooley

#15. What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Mary McCarthy

#16. If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown

Joyce Meyer

#17. The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

#18. A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Richard Schickel

#19. They'd laughed at him then, a cold, academic laughter that only knew the world through the New York Times.

Salar Abdoh