“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“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
“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
“Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.” YearsDifferentRealityThreeNationsSituationCircumstancesEuropeFavorsThree YearsRegulationHistoricJoiningMayorsInappropriatePolandDifferent TimesWarsaw Author:Lech Kaczynski
“In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.” WorldYearsHumansKindWarColdEuropeConcernThreatPlantActiveNuclearAround The WorldPermanentCold WarNuclear WarBitingNuclear PowerPower Plants Author:Oren Peli
“When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in America, and I have been involved in working on co-productions for years on both sides of the Atlantic and that's very much at the core of what Playground is doing. So marrying, finding projects that can be co-produced and can be produced using the very best talent from both sides of the Atlantic that's absolutely right at the center of what Playground is doing.” YearsHas BeensAmericaSidesTalentInvolvedFindingsProjectsEuropeProductionsOilCoreBoth SidesMarryingPlaygrounds Author:Colin Callender
“Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.” YearsKindHas BeensCuttingEconomicSeriousMajorsEuropeCrisisTerroristFundingMonitoringEconomic CrisisManpower Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.” PeopleYearsHardLastsOrderBitsDealsProgressCrazyFiguresHundredEuropeDramaticSexistOver The TopPrima Donnas Author:Rufus Wainwright
“The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.” YearsTodayEuropeUnionsPlantFacultySovietSoviet UnionEasternMarxismHarvardMarxistEastern EuropeBayonets Author:George Will
“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.” PeopleYearsFirstsLongHas BeensHelpingAcceptingSeaFirst TimeEuropeCrisisGreekIgnoredRefugeeOctoberCemeteryAccusationPleadingNobody CaresRefugee CrisisSpaniardsMediterranean Sea Author:Martin Schulz
“When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.” YearsSportsRecordsFiveEuropeThings To DoFive YearsTiedPointing Author:Pete Sampras
“Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.” MenYearsTwoRunningPresidentPartyNumbersLeaderMonthsSixSpringEuropeElectionFranceShockPensPresidencySix MonthsMarie Author:Rachel Maddow
“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.” WorldYearsStillsRealHelpingLastsCertainOrderFallIndividualNationsUnderstandingEnemyGreaterFrontsEuropeFoundationFinancialPrivilegeConvincedTyrannyCertaintyCrucialRulersExploitationDegenerationEnemy Within Author:Adolf Hitler
“Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.” WorldYearsFirstsFansFirst TimeEuropeYears AgoExcited Author:Dolly Parton
“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingYearsMadeImportantMatterMomentsBigsSeemsCertainNumbersStupidTelevisionDramaEuropeIndiaBlockAppealsOperaMatter Of TimeAmerican Television Author:Robert Ashley
“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.” YearsHas BeensEndsAgeLastsAmericaDifferencesForgetSawsPlanetsEuropeClimateDecadesIceCovered1930sNorth AmericaIce Age Author:James Spann
“In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.” IfsThinkingYearsSeemsAmericaThreeAttitudeAcceptingBandEuropeBritainThree YearsStink Author:John Bush
“It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe at 15 or 16 years old. All I knew before that was music on the radio and TV. When I went over there I realized there are all different levels of music. There are people who do blues, jazz, classical, working in film, TV and all kinds of places. You might not see them on MTV but there are lots of needs and uses and opportunities for all kinds of music.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindMadeDifferentUseMightRunningTogetherFilmOpportunityLevelsTvsHugeEuropeImpactJazzRadioI RealizedAll KindsMtvDifferent Levels Author:Chris Thomas King
“All of Europe is tremendously integrated now; perhaps from all those years of colonization. Everybody that they've colonized has come to the mainland, so you'll have a racially diverse audience as well. You'll have many Middle Easterners, Asians, Africans, from seven to ninety sitting in the audience, and the really incredible thing is that they all know the music. I don't mean they just know a song here and there. They know the music. They are a very educated audience.” KnowsYearsWellsMeanSongAudienceMiddleSittingEuropeSevenIncrediblesEducatedDiverseNinetyHere And ThereIntegratedColonization Author:Patti Austin
“All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.” ShouldYearsMomentsTodayFallFoundNationsEasyDifficultWallTomorrowSolutionsEuropeFlowIntelligentDialogueBridgesMigrants Author:Pope Francis
“Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.” YearsAgePastUsedSpeakDarkEuropePassingPassingsUsed To BeRadicalLatinDark AgesCounterproductivePast Future Author:Bruce Sterling
“My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.” PeopleIfsWantYearsWellsStatesPlayAsksDealsEuropeManagementEightHolesAsk MeCanadaTexasSplitsPublishingJohnsonNashvillePigeons Author:Cody Johnson
“I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!” PeopleIfsWorldYearsBelieveResultsEuropeTwentiesGoing AwayQuartersIgnored Book:White Line Fever Source: White Line Fever
“According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.” WorldYearsWarHalfMillionsEuropeOrganizationInternationalWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IMigrationMigrants Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."” YearsChildrenProblemPresidentNumbersSituationEuropeCrisisHumanitarianBarackBordersRefugeeUrgentCrossingsPresident Barack ObamaBackyardsRefugee CrisisLooming Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“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
“There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.” YearsHumansMovingHumanityMillionsEnvironmentMiddlePeriodsEuropeYears AgoClimateLeavingWarmEastDesertThemeWildernessAncestorMiddle EastAdaptationOur EnvironmentHomo SapiensEcosystemsAdaptingFreezingTropicalRecurringNew EnvironmentRecurring Themes Author:Annalee Newitz
“There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.” WorldYearsWarCenturyEuropeSevenWar Of The WorldsSeven Years19th CenturyNapoleonic Author:George Friedman
“Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsMadeTwoDifferentLastsValuesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtEuropeBoatDifferent ThingsAffectedExploringMobileMississippiAlabamaCargoRougeBatonBaton Rouge Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone I'm back!" I gave everyone their lighters from Luxembourg, gave them the postcards from Italy and Rome, then said, "Hey look, I made a record, too" and played it for them. The general reaction was shock, because it was so different from what they've known me to do.” YearsLooksMadeSaidDifferentHomeKnownRecordsEuropeAlbumsFinishedReactionsHeyShockRomeLightersPostcardsI'm Back Author:Feist
“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.” IfsThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStatesLastsFacesTermChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEconomicBuildingParticularApproachEuropeHistoricalAidsDevelopingLong TermAgricultureProximityLong Term RelationshipHistorical Context Author:Dambisa Moyo
“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.” PeopleYearsWarAmericaReligiousSpecialSourcePeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeAttractionPersecutionRenaissanceFleeingReligious Persecution Author:Mitch Horowitz
“There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.” YearsSaidDifferentDoneGamesMillionsPlayerCollegeEuropeDamnNbaProvenRoutesScrewsBucksJordanForgingDamn Good Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.” YearsThreeJourneyEuropeThree YearsHamptons Author:Quincy Jones
“Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.” ThinkingYearsCoursesSocialChancePerfectVisionOffersEuropeWorkersReformStayingPacePassportsSocial Reform Author:Frances O'Grady
“Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution. And in Europe's darkest hour, we helped keep the flame of liberty alight. Across the continent, in silent cemeteries, lie the hundreds of thousands of British servicemen who gave their lives for Europe's freedom.” YearsMadeLyingHoursLibertyHavensUniqueEuropeSilentBritishTyrannyFlamesContributionBritainContinentsPersecutionCemeteryFleeingDarkest HourServicemen Author:David Cameron
“Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own press conference. They all say the same thing, in 24 languages: I was able to push through my agenda. And if the result is anything other than what they desired, the message is: Brussels is to blame. It has been this way for over 20 years. These messages stick with people, and that's deadly for Europe.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayYearsHas BeensGovernmentHappensAbleLanguageResultsMessagesEuropeBlamePressesSticksMeetingsAgendasDo You KnowConferencesCouncilPress ConferencesBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“I think the other thing that's interesting about the women's peloton is that if you ask what their background is most have played college sports, and a lot of times have come off of injury and have gotten on a bike. A lot of us start post college in our mid 20's unlike in Europe where they start 10 years before that.” IfsThinkingYearsAsksSportsInterestingCollegeEuropeBackgroundsPostsInjuryBikeCollege Sports Author:Kristin Armstrong
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.” YearsTwoDifferentRealBigsThreeEuropeConquerGatesThree YearsOnce Upon A TimeMoscowReal PowerNorth Africa Author:Yasser Arafat
“I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.” YearsMeanHouseWhiteHeardMomEuropeExtraordinaryBusyMy MomWhite HouseTraveledWarhol Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesStatesPastNationsNumbersGrowingBloodCenturyReturnEuropeHistoricalDecadesFamiliarDemonSoilRhetoricOver The PastDeclaringJuncture Author:Martin Schulz
“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.” YearsBelieveWellsCountryFactsMillionsGoneBirthTenLimitsEuropeRateIncludingOther CountriesSeventiesBirth Rate Author:Indira Gandhi
“I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.” YearsAgeMovingMy OwnAdultsEuropeIndiaEnglandEightFinanceFranceSwitzerlandFrance And England Author:Indira Gandhi
“Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."” ThinkingYearsRealHappensAmericaGrowthHellOne ThingEuropeMadWesternIncomeCandidatesMassiveVotersStimulusNorth AmericaWestern Europe Author:Gary Shilling
“Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.” YearsLastsAmericaEuropeChinaJapanLast YearEurope And America Author:Jamie Dimon
“In recent years, we`ve made historic investments in NATO, increased America`s presence in Europe.” YearsMadeAmericaEuropeInvestmentHistoricNato Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over Europe, which was frightening. But a couple of years later I became interested in the anarchist movement.” YearsFirstsFallMovementCoupleEuropeSpreadArticlesFascismFrighteningAnarchistBarcelona Author:Noam Chomsky
“Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the United States has a fundamental interest in Europe's stability and security.” YearsHas BeensStatesPresidentInterestUnitedPartyUnited StatesSecurityPolicyEuropeFundamentalsPartnersGood TimesStabilityForeign PolicyAlliancesNatoCornerstones Author:Barack Obama
“I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeSometimesLastsProgressEuropeExtraordinaryAriseGrantedFrustrationZoneEuro Author:Barack Obama