Quotes About Albania

#1. It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

John Buchan

#2. Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

Dimitrije Tucovic

#3. I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

Dan Jenkins

#4. [Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Paul Newman

#5. Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

Fatos Nano

#6. Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

Edi Rama

#7. Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Fatos Nano

#8. They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.

Jason Goodwin

#9. Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Fatos Nano

#10. Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

Emma Bonino

#11. I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.

Georgi Parvanov

#12. And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

Alan Furst

#13. I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Ismail Kadare

#15. As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

Eddie Mair

#16. I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

Oscar Wilde

#17. It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Ismail Kadare

#18. Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

Fatos Nano

#19. Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

Marni Jackson

#20. Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

John Bolton

#21. If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.

Ismail Kadare

#22. Greater Albania?!", this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.

Ismail Kadare

#23. Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania.

Stanislaw Lem

#24. Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

Fatos Nano

#25. I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

Mamoru Hosoda

#26. You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

L. Ron Hubbard

#27. While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination,

Leatrice Eiseman

#28. The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

Thomas Malthus

#29. When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

Peace Pilgrim

#30. Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Charles Darwin

#31. I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

Gina Rodriguez

#32. Of the twenty- three men and women who served in Dwight Eisenhower's cabinets, only one, the secretary of agriculture, published a memoir afterward, and it was so discreet as to be soporific.

David Brooks

#33. They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#34. Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

David Sylvian

#35. I always say, 'If you're planning on seeing our movie, don't look at any more of the materials.'

Joseph Kosinski

#36. Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

Enver Hoxha