“Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.” MenCountryWholeVirtueWonderfulMankindHe ManEuropeExcellenceBlowOur CountryIslandsEmpiresRegionsContinentsEgyptColumnsLibyaAtlantis Book:Gorgias and Timaeus Source: Gorgias and Timaeus
“As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.” WorldLooksWarStatesDoneUnitedUnited StatesPlansWonderfulEuropeDollarsCharityObviousBillionsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IWonderful ThingsDevastation Author:Michael Beschloss
“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.” WorldWritingWellsTwoBookWarCharacterCultureEasyKnownNovelWonderfulSixHappeningsEuropeSeriesBritishFinishedBrilliantWar Of The WorldsPeculiarEgyptEasternSecond World WarSlimEastern EuropeTrilogiesBalkansOliviaExpatriates Author:Sarah Waters
“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.” YearsStillsWarFactsHomeTodayLeftWonderfulFrontsEatingEuropeRemainsBordersFiftyGenocideFar AwayBosnians Author:Slavenka Drakulic
“The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.” PeopleLittlesNationsWonderfulWrittenCivilizationEuropeDirectWesternFormerGreekSavagesSuperiorityInheritanceSummitOld Greek Book:Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Source: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
“We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasWantedPastWonderfulCenturyCreatingEuropeExcitedShouldersBritainSensibility21st CenturyBlastRubbish Author:David Bowie
“In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.” TogetherAmericaBlackWhiteWonderfulCenturyEuropeIncludingDirtyWorking TogetherNineteenth CenturyPopulistPopulismAbolitionistDirty Words Author:Zephyr Teachout