The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
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Related It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was n... NATAN SHARANSKY The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my pho... MICHAEL FASSBENDER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER He was a businessman with interest in Latin America. He wanted to promote goodwill and understanding... SHERRY WHITE That was a nice place to play. I've played in Portugal, Israel, China, Spain, Russia and South Korea... MFON UDOKA Sun did well in the Asian games, did great in Italy during our pre-World Cup tour, and was doing gre... JIM LEFEBVRE In terms of comprehensive national prowess, China stands among the secondary tier of world powers, g... WANG LING Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that... SAMUEL JOHNSON Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps... JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever
debated in America; and a greater perhap... JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps... JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps... JOHN ADAMS If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The 4-1 defeat in Italy was not as bad as some people said it was and this 4-1 victory against the U... JUERGEN KLINSMANN I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, S... JAMES BOSWELL I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my fath... SIMON KUZNETS After 9/11, the President of the United States was a challenged leader. He faced difficult times. We... JEFF SESSIONS Wilkinson had a lot of high-powered influence in the United States, Spain and France. Wilkinson comm... DEBORAH ESPINOSA Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history SUNDAY ADELAJA It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we... ZINEDINE ZIDANE According to the Koran and the Hadith, aggressive warfare for the purpose of imposing Islam on the w... BRIGITTE GABRIEL The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany a... CHRISTOPHER WHITE The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility... LANCE ARMSTRONG But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER The best sky was in Italy or Spain and in Northern Michigan in the fall ERNEST HEMINGWAY He was sent off at the 1998 World Cup, and now he missed two penalties against France and Portugal. ... FRANZ BECKENBAUER God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blesse... EMANUEL CLEAVER I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. BENJAMIN MILLEPIED The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God. RAFAEL CRUZ Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way tow... THOMAS MALLON The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the w... JAMES BURKE The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because... VICTORIA SCHWAB I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not G... WILBUR ROSS Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. Th... NOAM CHOMSKY There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the ... LUIS FIGO O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations--
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;
I ... UNKNOWN You tell him certain things and he does them. The game he played in Portugal for us in February was ... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable... JOYCE MEYER [Ronaldo has returned to his native Madeira for the funeral and Fergie admitted he was not sure when... FERGIE I actually thought he was giving away stuff. There was a lot of people here. It's good he accommodat... DENISE REED Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosop... SALMAN KHAN Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,... CHARLIE PIERCE When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse, ALAN CROPSEY It was the second time he had done something like that, and Holland decided he can't be a substitute... JAMES EVANS It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalitio... JACK STRAW Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th... JAMES A. MICHENER When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As ... SUN YAT-SEN That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United St... JAMES F. BYRNES Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia. CONDOLEEZZA RICE In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. DANIEL BOONE The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting insi... JOHN MCCAIN I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino. JESSICA SANCHEZ The purpose of pay phones was to serve people in motion. Wireless phones now serve that same purpose... JIM SMITH I was watching John, I thought he was the strongest. The Gerolsteiner rider... I think he was playin... JASON MCCARTNEY Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This ... VITO FOSSELLA I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. PEDRO ALMODOVAR The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United ... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Peter was dull; he was at first
Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!
Whether he talked, wrote, or... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (Brian Gilbert) advised that he heard a moan, and was initially excited because he thought he shot a... WILLIAM JENKINS His reputation got him the second-toughest prison in the United States when he went in. They figured... BRUCE NORRIS I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio... NANCY SINATRA In so many ways, he was declaring his candidacy for president of the United States, and he seduced t... JEFFREY BERRY He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was u... JEFF DUNCAN We found six coin workshops in Italy, and one we found in Spain was run by Italian counterfeiters. IANNIS XENAKIS You don't know how excited he was about that -- he was in the United States on his 21st birthday. CARLA THURIN The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an... DANIELA RUAH Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also... ILAN STAVANS At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United ... HIDEKI TOJO A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was ... JAMES PATTERSON There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the Unit... ALAN ADLER As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the c... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l... CHRISTINA ENGELA The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the r... JAMES MADISON The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between... ARTHUR HENDERSON I was very disappointed that he got beat the first time, but it was a 4 ½-furlong race and once he ... ELLIOTT WALDEN Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class ... HELMUT SCHMIDT Germany had a balancing function not only in European politics but in the European Union, between Br... KATINKA BARYSCH In our interpretation, this was not a flight to or from the United States. It was to Mexico. BART KOSTER I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all ... JOHN SHERMAN COOPER For me, the tragedy of Vietnam was the divisions that occurred in the United States that made it, in... HENRY KISSINGER New Mexico was an out-of-the-way place. It wasn't a hub for Mexico or Spain, or for the United State... ED ROMERO People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United State... BILL HICKS We have always supported the idea of parity management and we stick to it now. Moreover, we see the ... ALEXANDER MEDVEDEV Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he sto... NOAM CHOMSKY It wouldn't be a surprise if the title goes to a new team. We cannot ignore Portugal or Holland as p... CARLOS PARREIRA
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear me, how I love a library. ELIZABETH GILBERT That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us ... ELIZABETH GILBERT There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of div... ELIZABETH GILBERT Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy ... ELIZABETH GILBERT In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic e... ELIZABETH GILBERT يعتقد المرء أن توأم الروح هو الشخص الأنسب له ، وهذا ماي�... ELIZABETH GILBERT Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat... ELIZABETH GILBERT There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk... ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic... ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-... ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus... ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be... ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin... ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p... ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w... ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express... ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou... ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,... ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that... ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali... ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath... ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv... ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ... ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy... ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some... ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t... ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g... ELIZABETH GILBERT