World Quotes

(Bird flu) is a smaller challenge at one level in the sense that we are better prepared, we have better knowledge, we are -- at least in our part of the world -- healthier than people were in 1918. - David Butler

(At) some of the organizations that we stop at along the way, (we) are the only contact that the disabled people have with the outside world besides their parents for the whole year. It's like Christmas to a lot of them. - Rocky Wehling

(As) someone who is concerned about our situation in the world as human beings, I wonder sometimes, 'Hey, I've wandered into this cartoon world. Am I doing the right thing?'? (But) for me, it's as important as a great novel. - Jerry Beck

(As for) those who took the calf (for a god), surely wrath from their Lord and disgrace in this world's life shall overtake them, and thus do We recompense the devisers of lies. - Quran

(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science. - Thomas Jefferson

$43 billion worth of unopened and unused food is thrown into landfill sites in the US every year, enough to end world hunger. - Unknown