World Quotes

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

Klaus Schwab
- World
- Poverty
There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.

Nate Robinson
- People
- Up
- Kids

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.

Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
- People
- World
- War
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

Dana Schutz
- Different
- Culture
- Space
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

Rachel McAdams
- World
- Thought
- End
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.

Samantha Power
- Work
- Long
- Business
I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

Gaby Hoffmann
- World
- Show
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

Cameron Russell
- History
- Change
- Serious