“There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.” HumansHalfDestinyCrazyChangedEuropePrejudiceStrongerKingdomsPeterAsiaHermits Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” IfsStillsCareLawPoliticalBeliefReligiousHalfPracticeCuttingRightsChangedSafePaperResourcesRateCriticalAccessHealth CareCodeMortalityDeniedChildbirthReligious BeliefPolitical WillReproductive Health Author:Hillary Clinton
“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.” AgeLevelsHalfCenturyInformationChangedIgnorancePerceptionShockEnteringFamiliarityNumbInsensitiveInformation AgeCumulative Author:Anna Quindlen
“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.” FirstsTwoPastOrderThreePresidentUnitedHalfCenturyChangedSeriousAmountCitizensFinishedCandidatesUnlimitedIowaHampshireNew HampshireCitizens United Author:Mark Shields
“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.” PeopleWorldWayWarStatesTogetherFightingStuffBornUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesFeminismMiddleDyingChangedPlanetsLifetimeConnectedWar Of The WorldsBombsEmpiresConcentrationCampsColonySecond World WarAtomic BombHiroshimaConcentration CampHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Isabel Allende
“Cinema has changed the world. If you go to the beginning of the cinema, you can see that the world started meeting other worlds. It was extraordinary. We saw how other people were living and thinking. How they were sad or happy. We also saw the body - naked or half-naked people, which was prohibited everywhere by religions. This was extremely important.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldImportantBodyHalfSawsChangedMeetingsExtraordinaryNakedCinemaOther Worlds Author:Costa-Gavras
“I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.” YearsFirstsHalfChangedAvailableHatedLicenseCopyrightLinuxUnix Author:Linus Torvalds
“And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.” ThinkingLongKidsTermHoursHalfOpinionChangedInternetFairsLengthDocumentariesIrrelevantDistributionOutletsItunes Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.” FeelsHumansLooksDoeMatterFacesMotherLostHoursHalfGoneForeverChangedExpressionBabyArmsNo Matter WhatPrisonerMechanismCapturedHalf HoursBest PictureDead Baby Author:Horst Faas
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.” ShouldWould BeHalfChangedDoctorsAutismCommitteesPreciseDiagnosisProfileOther HalfAdhdBickeringDyslexiaTuberculosis Author:Temple Grandin
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.” IfsMenYearsLooksTwoWarCountryFilmYoungThreeAsksDecisionAnswersHalfResponsibilityImpossibleHappenedChangedLike YouMen And WomenYears AgoComplexesHopefullyYoung ManThree YearsRight Answers Author:Paul Haggis
“We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.” WorldPastNextSocialBornHalfChangedInternetGlassesBobComing BackDylanNetworkingAvenuesMusic BusinessSocial NetworkingCrossroadsHalf Full Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.” BookStoriesHalfChangedKingsLutherChanged My LifeMontgomery Author:John Lewis
“I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.” WritingYearsHalfChangedSixYears AgoLandscapeHalf A Year Author:Natalie Dormer