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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! -- Thabo Mbeki
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. -- George Mikes
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. -- Winston Churchill
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. -- E. V. Lucas
We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity. -- Thabo Mbeki
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent -- Kwame Nkrumah
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. -- Charles Farrar Browne
If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. -- George Catlin
Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner. -- Thabo Mbeki
On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. -- Mark Steyn
British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches. -- Jo Brand
On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt. -- George Mikes
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth. -- George Mikes
Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. -- Charles Darwin
I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument. -- Thabo Mbeki
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. -- George Catlin
My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it. -- John Gimlette
My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment. -- Margaret Beckett
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. -- George Mikes
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. -- George Catlin
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent." -- Jon Weisman
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull. -- George Mikes
Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world. -- Karl Marx
When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. -- Michael Haneke
Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life. -- Rigoberta Menchu
One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us. -- Heinrich Himmler
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. -- Joseph Hume
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If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it? -- George Mikes
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me. -- Andrew Dickson White
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
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe. -- Nicholson Baker
A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden. -- Hector Hugh Munro
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. -- Theodor Mommsen
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. -- Andrew Eldritch
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. -- Gilbert Parker
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. -- John Donne
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. -- Justin Cronin
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. -- Chester A. Arthur
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. -- Tommy Douglas
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. -- Thabo Mbeki
And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources. -- Miriam Makeba
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -- Abraham Lincoln
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives. -- Brian Moore
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. -- Terry Pratchett
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. -- Christopher Dawson
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl. -- Jane Goodall
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. -- Nelson Mandela
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. -- Jeff Goodell
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. -- Cynthia Ozick
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. -- Bono
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. -- John Hoeven
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. -- David Cameron
Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. -- Dennis Prager
The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!' -- Seth Shostak
So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now. -- Sister Souljah
Australia is the most isolated continent. -- Jared Diamond
Europe is my continent, not my country -- John Redwood
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent. -- Loren Eiseley
I take this continent with me into the grave. -- Ray Bradbury
Africa is one continent, one people and one nation -- Kwame Nkrumah
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere. -- Anthony Kiedis
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. -- James Agee
At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas. -- Toba Beta
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. -- George Ayittey
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. -- Margot Fonteyn
The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. -- Chantal Zabus
Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. -- Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. -- Clive Bell
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation. -- Edmund Barton
America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent. -- Sunil Bharti Mittal
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. -- Claire Denis
Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes. -- Djimon Hounsou
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. -- Sigmund Freud
America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. -- Ezra Pound
The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica. -- Gisela Stuart
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. -- George Will
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent. -- Walter Salles
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. -- H. A. L. Fisher
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. -- Diane Ackerman
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape -- Maya Angelou
India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent. -- Kabir Bedi
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. -- Omar Bongo
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. -- William Dunbar
All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers. -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. -- Martin Schulz
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. -- Amanda Ripley
I'd have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. -- Nova Peris
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people. -- Carter Burwell
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. -- John Milton
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. -- Thomas Paine
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. -- Bertrand Russell
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. -- Riccardo Muti
Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny. -- Nelson Mandela
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. -- William Graham Sumner
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. -- Philip Larkin
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. -- Barbara Kingsolver
We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered. -- Fernando Meirelles
China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent. -- Jan Chipchase
Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. -- James Shikwati
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. -- Mark Shuttleworth
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. -- Stephen Harper
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. -- Joseph Conrad
My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West. -- Djimon Hounsou
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. -- Richard Attias
I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part." -- Jon Stewart
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. -- Richard Grant
The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903. -- Juan Enriquez
Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. -- Mo Ibrahim
Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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