Wendell Willkie Quotes

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

Wendell Willkie

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• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
  • Popular

• Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Everything

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
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  • Courage

• When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weird

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
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  • Positive

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Opportunities

• What kind of business world are we living in?

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Business
  • Kind

• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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  • Small
  • Sex

• The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • World
  • American
  • Government

• Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change

  

  Ian Lucas
  • World
  • May
  • Rest

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I'm gonna be so hot, I'm gonna fuck myself!

  

  Kathy Griffin

• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Small
  • Modern