All Quotes

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
‐‐ Yuliya Snigir

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
‐‐ Bill Gates

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
‐‐ James Surowiecki

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
‐‐ Janet Echelman

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Van Damme

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
‐‐ Billy Joel

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller

In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed for millennia. It's called reading. Yes, books are not just entertaining or educational: they can also improve your mental health.
‐‐ Matt Haig

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
‐‐ Dennis Flanagan

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
‐‐ Serge Daney

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
‐‐ Stephen Bayley

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.
‐‐ Richard Ben-Veniste

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
‐‐ Russell Baker

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.
‐‐ Don Tapscott

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
‐‐ David Blunkett

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.
‐‐ John Barrasso

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
‐‐ John Lasseter

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
‐‐ Virginia Johnson

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
‐‐ Peter Gallagher

In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.
‐‐ Stephen Elop

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.
‐‐ Tony Danza

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.
‐‐ Eugene Fama

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website.
‐‐ Jo Bonner

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

In an election, there are no kings.
‐‐ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
‐‐ Steve Carell

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
‐‐ James P. Carse

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
‐‐ David McCandless

In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?
‐‐ Jay Samit

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
‐‐ Roberto Azevedo

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
‐‐ Darell Hammond