Wolfensohn Co Quotes & Sayings

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream. — James Wolfensohn

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness. — James Wolfensohn

You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing — Leigh Bardugo

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. — James Wolfensohn

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping out of his arms, and you know he's swinging for the fences, in front of all your friends and family, and you can't breathe. You can't breathe no matter how much moves you know. You start to panic. You start to feel a drowning sensation. It's the worst feeling in the world. — Jon Jones

I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder. — Kay Kendall

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career. — Uzo Aduba

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn

Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries ... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown. — James Wolfensohn

Books are my greatest treasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is an old crow/Who knows only to gather dead twigs — John O'Donohue

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little. — James Wolfensohn

He'd forgotten about the beautiful things in life. Soft things. Gentle things. Sights and sounds. Tastes and touches. She was all of them wrapped up in one sweet package. — Sarah Castille

How many married couples who stay married until one of them dies can honestly say that they weren't terribly bored at times? — Holly Chamberlin

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born. — George MacDonald

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing. — William Zinsser

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty. — James Wolfensohn

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong. — James Wolfensohn

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. — James Wolfensohn

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty. — James Wolfensohn

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope. — James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development. — James Wolfensohn

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. — James Wolfensohn

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them ... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself". — Honeya

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. — James Wolfensohn

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror. — James Wolfensohn

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. — James Wolfensohn

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. — James Wolfensohn

In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation. — Steve Erickson