I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their… — Tom Devine Copy Share Image
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain,… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage. — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image