Nellie McKay Quotes

Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

The future is now.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

What is the world coming to?

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.