World Quotes
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What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.
Archibald Cox
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The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.
David W. Blight
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In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
Vinoba Bhave
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Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
Celia Thaxter
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The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.
Steven Spielberg
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Robert Frost
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There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
Muhammad Ali
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What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.
John McCain
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Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
Pico Iyer
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When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary to that question, and one we certainly hear a lot these days, is that genetically modified foods are better for the environment because they use fewer chemicals, which has been thoroughly debunked.
Anna Lappe
