Hans Rosling Quotes

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

Hans Rosling

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Process
  • Sacrifice

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • World
  • Want
  • Drama

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• 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

• As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Peace
  • Mom

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Change
  • Idea

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Down
  • Detail

• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • World
  • College
  • Hurt

• I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hope

• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Men
  • Remains

• Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

  

  Plato
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Excellence

• People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Experience

• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Power
  • War