Quotes of: Material-world Keyword

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Joe Biden

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

Imelda Staunton

I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.

Brian Schweitzer

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

Chris Gabrieli

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

Dan Pallotta

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

Erin Gruwell

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Henry Petroski

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

Nigel Dennis

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Jurgen Habermas

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

Jill Lepore

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

Timothy Garton Ash

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Derek Jacobi

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas Kuhn

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

Tom Stoppard

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Christine Gregoire

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

Rowan Williams

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Alice Hoffman