“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!” KnowsWorldMountainHappeningsElephantsAntsOblivious Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsWarTodayPastMemoriesRiskHappeningsConnectionsGlassesThings HappenHorriblePlentyThirtyGermanyHolocaustBubblesThirty YearsAtrocitiesHorrible ThingsNapoleonic Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.” ThinkingMenWorldGirlSexBoysNew YorkIndustryHorrorHappeningsMen And WomenTownsLondonParisLos AngelesOur WorldDisgustingBoy And GirlHorrificEnslavementTraffickingOur Town Author:Taylor Hackford
“It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.” WorldImportantHardFilmEasySeeingPerspectiveHappeningsAround The WorldShelterDistractedEasy To Get Author:Jennifer Connelly
“To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.” PeopleWorldYearsMeanDoeGovernmentActionForceWaitingDoorsPoliticianPromiseHappeningsAssumingNeighborCupsBrokeSugarHouseholdGreeceImpatientParaphraseFalse Promises Author:Sarah Palin
“It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.” IfsWorldMayWealthHappeningsPossessionEnterpriseDecayThrift Author:John Maynard Keynes
“He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayMatterKidsSidesPlayerAwarenessProveHappeningsAreasEdgesBoxesWho I AmPenaltiesRight WayRight TimeArrivingKnackOutside The BoxScholesPaul Scholes Author:Alex Ferguson
“My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.” IfsWorldNeedsFeelsShouldEvilTelevisionHappeningsActivismPlaces In The World Author:Alice Walker
“We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemTodayHappeningsSolveOur WorldHalfwayWorld TodayInterconnected Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.” WorldLooksSeemsLevelsConflictHappeningsNarrativeImmenseCompeting Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Nipples aren't killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There's so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.” WorldShouldChildrenWarViolenceHappeningsConcernedKillingUpsetNipples Author:Eva Green
“There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.” WorldFirstsBelieveTurnsHappeningsNewspapersTurn-on Author:James Purdy
“The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.” WorldPastHappeningsNotionThings HappenOur WorldImaginaryEnticingImaginary World Author:Elizabeth Hand
“I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantLooksLittlesI CanCan DoHappeningsMaskTranslateCan Do SomethingTouch Me Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.” PeopleWorldDutyHappeningsSacredThings HappenHorribleAnnoyingEquanimitySabotageHorrible ThingsProspering Book:Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain Source: Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain
“We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.” WorldFirstsRealLevelsGreaterBecomingHappeningsReal WorldIntegrationEnteringNovelty Author:Terence McKenna
“It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.” KnowsWorldImportantFallCan DoMembersHappenings Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.” WorldBodyEarthSpiritGrowthLordMoralityHappeningsCapacityPersonal GrowthExtraordinaryAverageEnormousObedienceContributionDeclineExceptional Author:Richard G. Scott
“Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.” WorldImportantHappeningsWho We Are Author:Ziggy Marley
“It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.” PeopleKnowsWorldSpeakLanguageLinesNicePerceptionHappeningsCountyOften Is Author:Cary Fukunaga
“It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.” WorldWarFactsEnergyInterestDangerousConflictHappeningsDollarsFuelRegimesFossilsFossil FuelGeopoliticalAggravated Author:Mark Ruffalo
“It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.” WorldGivingShowsJobsInterestMorningEventsHappeningsOvercomingArrivals Book:Headlines all my life Source: Headlines all my life
“What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.” WorldWantHappeningsDebateAround The WorldDiscussionProvoking Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.” WorldDifferentRealShowsTurnsSituationAirEffectsExampleHappeningsWarmSurfaceProofObservationFasterAtmosphereGlobal WarmingRegionsHypothesisMeasurementTrickyTheoristsCo2 Author:Nigel Calder
“I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.” WorldWantKidsDifferencesHappeningsCuriousSensitiveEngagedMaking A Difference Author:Chelsea Clinton
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksRealFacesHappeningsVoteWake UpComplicatedRegionsReal WorldHumiliationMenaceMarginalization Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtCertainCreativityHappeningsCubaArt World Author:Rachael Price
“Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.” IfsWorldSaidRealReasonMightHappensKidsSchoolMovingSoundTeachPersonalityHappeningsGapsReal WorldEducatorAggravating Author:Seymour Papert
“We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.” WorldGivingTogetherAbilityPiecesHappenedHappeningsLogicalRemembranceContinuity Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingChildrenHardSongGirlHappeningsAlbumsPopsSatisfiedTwelveUrbanElevenGood GirlBest Of Me Author:Chrisette Michele
“There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.” WorldCountryGirlCitiesLeaderViolenceHappeningsClaimsBackyardsLive Free Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.” WorldMomentsMovingSoundHappeningsRhythm Author:Paulo Coelho
“I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.” WorldYoungSoundThis WorldConversationHappeningsHollywoodActiveActressesHolesSurroundObserversMilitant Author:Mackenzie Davis
“If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.” IfsWorldWayStillsIdeasWarWholeSufferingHateNaturalBearsHappeningsTreatsNatural World Author:W. S. Merwin
“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.” PeopleMenWorldHumansLooksCountryFactsEyeFacesHuman BeingsInterestingSawsWillingGrewDevelopmentHappeningsIdealsDignityMarkLegacyScopeWorking ManRacial Equality Author:Hal Holbrook
“Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.” WorldGivingProductsRight NowHappeningsTradeSlaveThings HappenAwfulViciousHere I AmSlave Trade Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” PeopleWorldWayCountrySeemsKidsIndividualViewsGroupsHappeningsConcernedExcitedOur CountryBetter PlacePessimisticPlaces In The World Author:Steve Jobs
“When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.” PeopleThinkingWorldFourSeeingNewsHappeningsTwentiesSevenAround The WorldEvery SecondBreaking News Author:Biz Stone
“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.” WorldWritingBookRealWantedEventsHappeningsSaintBoundariesExceptionExplosionsOutside World Author:Paul Lisicky
“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.” WorldCharacterFactsStoriesFeelingsCertainMy OwnBehindsSunEmotionalTruth IsDegreesHappeningsUnderstoodStructureNarrativeSun Also RisesNarrative StructureTim O Brien Author:Kevin Keck
“If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.” IfsWorldKindStatesInterestMastersHappeningsAll KindsCorporatePermanentFearfulRegulationShatteredBarrelsCoupsSlow MotionSerfs Author:Chris Hedges
“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.” WorldStillsEndsReasonTodayRememberTermSubjectsPeriodsHappeningsSouthAround The WorldVarietyAffectedSouth AfricaWorld TodayApartheidNegotiatingPertinentPeace Talks Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.” ThinkingWorldWayPersonsUsedSufferingCultureDifferencesHappeningsInjusticeUsed To BeMaking A DifferenceDevotedExploitationExposingIlluminating Author:Brad Willis
“Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even among their own family members. And the other part is that there is a narrative that ISIS and other jihadists pose that this is a war between Muslims and the rest of the world.” WorldFirstsWellsMayWarCommunityMembersHappeningsNarrativeIsisFamily MembersMosques Author:Marco Rubio
“There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.” WorldStillsStuffInterestInterestingHappeningsGood ThingsBad ThingsGood And BadInteresting Stuff Author:Courtney Barnett
“The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.” WorldTryingI CanHomeChallengesInformationHappeningsPressesAround The WorldSecretary Author:Josh Earnest
“I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.” WorldFeelsTryingRealityCenturyFashionHappenings21st CenturyModernityDisconnectedInterpreting Author:Raf Simons
“The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.” WorldHelpingCoursesPrinciplesBuddhismHappeningsShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I can sit and list off all the things that are being worked on and all the things that are on the table, but that will take away all the surprises that are going to come. There are so many explosive, exciting things that are happening. Everybody that is in my life and in my world now has something to do with what I do.” WorldI CanHappeningsExcitingTablesSurpriseListsExplosivesExciting Things Author:Shane Bunting