“I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.” ThinkingYearsThreeNextDoubtFourFrontsToughEuropeDifficultyNo DoubtFour YearsPreparingTough TimesStagnation Author:Carlos Ghosn
“There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.” HumanityChristFourMeditationEventsFieldsWorshipEuropeCrossesExileKrishnaCrucifixionDevotionalSiegeGreat EventsCrucifixion Of ChristEvents In History Author:Sri Aurobindo
“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.” YearsStillsFeltCareersFourRocksMissingCollegeBandEuropeMovedShipsFour YearsIrelandRock BandsIndie Rock Author:Bill Watterson
“... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.” PiecesFourEuropeRegardFlightAviationCombatOfficersAirplaneSeniorEquipmentTruckBulldozersJeeps Book:Crusade in Europe Source: Crusade in Europe
“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.” WorldHumansArtPhilosophyCharacterLastsHumanityThreeCoursesNationsCommunityNaturalFourConditionsCenturyCivilizationDiscoveryEuropeEverydayImprovementInventionProgressiveCommerceMechanicAdvancementRefinedAntiquityExertionArt And ScienceContinuationRenderingNavigationNatural Philosophy Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I
“European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.” WayYearsSaidStatesTermFourPositionPromiseEuropeConcernUnionsPartnersGreekTunesFour YearsEuropean UnionStanceBargainingParliamentaryOptimal Author:Yanis Varoufakis
“If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.” PeopleIfsEndsCountryAmericaDiesCoursesHoursHalfFourEuropeBallsEntertainmentWelcomeOur CountrySoccerCollapseEnjoyableBleachers Author:Daniel Tosh
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.” KidsSchoolLanguageFourHigh SchoolEuropeEducation SystemHeroinAk 47 Author:Eddie Griffin
“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.” WarMatterPhilosophyFightingThreeFourCostConsequenceEuropeSlaveryHistoricalSlaveNotionJewFlyingTyrannyGenocideTrustedBowlsSuper BowlNo War Author:Bill Whittle
“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesDifferentThreeWiseFourRocksFrontsHundredEuropeHip HopPopsHipsHopsConcertsDifferent KindsVenuesSwaggerGimmicksDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:K-Maro
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.” LittlesWarEndsSchoolTogetherBlackChurchPoorClassFourHigh SchoolEuropeTownsSouthEastNeighborhoodImmigrantsMexicoWorking ClassElementary School Author:Toni Morrison
“The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."” PeopleIdeasPlayThreeNextLosesFourWeekTomorrowEuropeInvestmentGuitarLondonFlightCaliforniaExpensiveDriversTerritoryVansBassNext Week Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.” IfsEnoughWholeCareAbleJobsOpportunityPayFourGenerationsStudentsPercentEuropeSickEightNineHealth CareWorriedRetiringSeventiesLoanMillennialsStudent LoanJob Opportunities Author:Michael Hudson
“When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.” BelieveDifferentCountryGovernmentAmericaI BelievePresidentFourEuropeExtraordinaryProtectionPlanningRussiaPlanesPresidentialBoardsLatinLatin AmericaUnprecedentedDiplomaticDifferent Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.” WorldEnoughMomentsAmericaFilmThreePoorSuccessfulFiveFourEuropeCrisisProductionsOnly In America Author:Sophia Loren
“Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.” PeopleYearsIdeasWantedReadingFourImagineJourneyEuropeIndiaMeetingsEastFour YearsExchangingExchanging Ideas Author:Shel Silverstein
“The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.” PeoplePersonsSelfBodyLastsThreeWaterHoursSecretFourEuropeBathsSteep Author:Angel Ganivet