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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• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
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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
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • You
  • Peace
  • Always

• 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
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 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
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• 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
  • Life
  • Age
  • Relationship

• 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
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• 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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  • Media
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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
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  • Impossible
  • Grace

• 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
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• 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
  • World
  • Years
  • Club

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • World

• I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Time
  • Real
  • College

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Little

• 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
  • World
  • Age
  • Peace