Daddy changed the world. – Gianna Floyd Six-year-old daughter of George Floyd, whose killing by Minneapolis police sparked worldwide protests against racism.
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way. – Hilary Mantel
Shoot, after you’ve been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there’s no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we’re pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas. – Gib Lewis
Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It’s the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did. – Gary Jennings
‘In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world. – Honeysuckle Weeks
All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world. – Ger Duany
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It’s a principle that’s been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. – Henning Mankell
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives. – Henry Reed
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. – Henry Ford
What’s great in the modern world is that it’s becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be. – Helen Mirren
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It’s conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one’s after. – Ian Hislop
One of the things I’m fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them. – Hanya Yanagihara
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it. – Giacomo Leopardi
Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia. – Gerald Vizenor
It’s true that America can’t solve every problem, but I don’t know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us. – Hillary Clinton
I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He’s like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me. – Henry Kravis
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I’ve thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do all these years. – George E. Brown, Jr.
I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good. – Hasso Plattner
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we’ve got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access. – Howard Rheingold
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world. – Haskell Wexler
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of ‘fairy’ is imported as a delicate spice. – Graham Joyce
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. – Harold E. Varmus
The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God. – Harold B. Lee
I think there’s an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. – Godfrey Reggio
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold. – George Villiers
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. – Henry Cabot Lodge