Top 1200 Today's World Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today's the time to do big things.

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

Today, I have an understanding of the world, and of the entertainment and media industries, of how people consume content.

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy - even in today's deeply troubled world.

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do not believe in a standard of moral values. Many in the world today operate on the basis of practical expediency. You have undoubtedly observed this yourselves. It has become a philosophy of life for many. This is true among nations as well as among individuals.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help you."

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

In a fast-paced world, today's popular brand could be tomorrow's trivia question.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.