All Quotes

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
‐‐ David Korten

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, 'This is your call, Miss Jensen'. I got exhilarated by that.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

In a world that is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before, it is critical that we work together to uphold the norms and statutes that keep our citizens safe, our countries secure, and our economies fair.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
‐‐ David Mamet

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
‐‐ Andrew Young

In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
‐‐ Joichi Ito

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
‐‐ Scott Pelley

In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
‐‐ Dan Ariely

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.
‐‐ Hassan Rouhani

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
‐‐ Dan Hill

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
‐‐ Betsy Beers

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
‐‐ Carl Honore

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
‐‐ Kathleen Quinlan

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

In a world without any criticism at all, although there are many actors who would think they would be delighted to see that happen, would in fact be a far more problematic world than they could ever imagine.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
‐‐ Randall Terry

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.
‐‐ Donald Sadoway

In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
‐‐ Chandler Riggs

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized.
‐‐ Richard Diebenkorn

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.
‐‐ Peggy Lipton

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
‐‐ Hill Harper

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
‐‐ Robin Tunney

In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.
‐‐ Timothy Hutton

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
‐‐ Benjamin Stockham

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.
‐‐ Charity Shea