Wolfensohn World Quotes

#1. Life doesn't send out invitations. Don't wait. Take risks. Be unforgettable. Be happy and live.

Kate Mathias

#2. Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Frances Mayes

#4. The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

Dwayne Johnson

#5. I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what's important.

Usain Bolt

#6. Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

Sherley Anne Williams

#7. Empathy is also a natural human behavior, and natural to chimps as well. When we see someone hurt, our brains respond to some extent as if we'd been hurt ourselves.

Karen Joy Fowler

#8. 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

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

James Wolfensohn

#10. Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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

James Wolfensohn

#12. 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

#13. Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.

Sebastian Junger