“If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.” PeopleIfsLooksYoungVoiceMediaYouthSpringEuropeStartingTraditionalArab Spring Author:Shane Smith
“I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.” IfsPersonsYoungJoyTurnsFoundPsychologyWifeHavensCryFiguresTearsInvolvedSorrowHusbandLateEuropeNotesDelightDinnerShipsFascinatingBiologyBurnedClueFarewellBathroomPlightYoung LadiesMistyDocksTumblingCascadeBonnetsConfettiTears Of Joy Author:Malcolm Forbes
“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.” PeopleLongEndsReasonTodayYoungSocialNumbersPaySecurityFineTomorrowEuropeCrisisFasterRisingJapanSchemesOld PeopleSocial SecurityPensionRatiosPonzi Scheme Author:Milton Friedman
“Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.” MenHappensYoungLostEuropeYoung ManLost Confidence Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.” YoungParentCommonTaxesEuropePopulationMake SenseContinentsDensityPopulation Density Author:Rosecrans Baldwin
“Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.” PeopleYoungPoliticalSocialEuropePopulationCuriousPlatformsTurkeysSocial NetworkTurkishDaily Experience Author:Elif Safak
“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.” KnowsMenWorldYoungCommunityCitiesMiddleSummerEuropeEastYoung ManTensionDividedMiddle EastEasternInstabilityEastern EuropeMissouriAmerican CitiesFerguson Author:Barack Obama
“I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.” PeopleHumansHeartMadeSometimesYoungSpiritWealthMissingMaterialsAmbitionEuropeProfoundChinaDislikeHuman HeartEntrepreneurialShowing OffInsensitiveDynamismMaterial WealthEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Zhang Xin
“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.” FirstsWellsHardBeautifulYoungReturnEuropeAffairHard TimesTallThickSecretaryYoung WomenFluBlondeFranklinVery BeautifulLucyEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“During my campaign, I had come across a small number of (mostly) young men, who had strongly racist views. They told me they would only vote for a party that was willing to get rid of black and coloured people from this country. What struck me as strange is that they weren't bothered about the thousands of white Europeans arriving from Central and Eastern Europe.” PeopleMenCountryYoungBlackWhiteViewsPartyNumbersStrangeWillingEuropeVoteCampaignsYoung ManRacistEasternBotheredArrivingSmall NumbersEastern Europe Author:Andrea Leadsom
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.” PeopleYoungLeftGroupsDrugEuropeIdealsEmptyAlcoholFundamentalist Author:Pope Francis
“Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our country. This is why the Danes, unlike the people of many countries in Eastern and Central Europe, became Lutherans and not Calvinists.” PeopleCountryYoungEuropeStartingOur CountryEasternTheologianLutherReformationThesisDanishLutherans Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentYoungUnitedCasesUnited StatesGoneStandardsEuropeAssumingTendenciesPeacefulGrantedErasGermanyStableConsistentlySystems Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.” PeopleThinkingWarYoungForgetIssuesColdEuropeStakesCold War Author:Barack Obama
“There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.” IfsChildrenLittlesYoungParentToo MuchHairMomTerribleAdultsEuropeDistanceYoung AdultSizeMy MomGet UpBowsShut UpTalk To MeSmall ChildGood ParentGreat Parents Author:Maya Angelou
“I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsArtSometimesStatesFacesYoungAudienceNew YorkEuropeConcernSocialismDisappointedParticipation Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.” PeopleTryingYoungMiddleEuropeMiddle Aged Author:Mike Myers
“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.” AmericaFilmYoungAudienceIntellectualEuropeSexualityTheatreCinema Author:Jacqueline Bisset
“My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.” AgeYoungPovertyTravelEuropeIndiaExtraordinaryFortunateMy SisterFunny TravelAsiaYoung AgeUnspeakableAthensExtraordinary Beauty Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaYoungStudyHard WorkDramaTrainingEuropeEnglandTechniqueAccents Author:Joan Collins
“Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.” PeopleIdeasDifferentWould BeYoungFunFiveEuropeEntertainmentBarsChocolateBenchesChocolate BarsScooters Author:Mike Myers
“I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.” YoungEuropeGates Author:Marc Almond