Wolfensohn Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

James Wolfensohn

#3. Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

Sidney Hook

#4. For some, their endless potential can be more frightening than their shortcomings,

Dana Marton

#5. And I agree that you should be basking in my glory ... especially since I took a stake through the heart to save your life." I couldn't help but grin. "And it didn't even take you twenty-four hours to remind me." "One uses the tools at one's disposal, Sentinel.

Chloe Neill

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Frank Carlucci

#9. The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

James Wolfensohn

#10. 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

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

James Wolfensohn

#12. If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

James Wolfensohn

#13. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper

#14. What is life without incompatible realities?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

James Wolfensohn

#16. 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

#17. Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Wolfensohn

#18. If you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

Condoleezza Rice

#19. We're all looking for something, something to be.

Rob Thomas

#20. 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

#21. Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

James Wolfensohn

#22. Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.

Diana Gabaldon

#23. 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

#24. Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

Stuart Rose

#25. Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James

#26. And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#27. As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#28. 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

#29. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

William Shakespeare