John Boyd Orr Quotes
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.John Boyd Orr
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The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
Yitzhak Rabin -
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt -
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino -
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward -
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
W. Averell Harriman -
We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin -
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell -
I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
Landon Donovan -
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
Iain Banks -
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
Irrfan Khan -
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
A. S. Byatt -
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
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Analysts estimate that emerging markets are expected to drive 90 percent of the world's pharmaceutical market growth, and differentiated products will be important to this growth.
Dilip Shanghvi -
I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
Harland Williams -
I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.
Gaylord Nelson -
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr