- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.
- Pandemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020