Quotes of: World-history Keyword

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

Lauren Hutton

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

Nathan Wolfe

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Oscar de la Renta

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

Secret Rendezvous

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the...

In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite a...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.

What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World

Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the wh...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of fundi...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The Realm of the Nebulae

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

The Love Mindset

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki