James Wolfensohn Quotes
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
Quotes to Explore
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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The biggest fear you face, as an actor, is whether people are going to like you. When you learn to let go of that fear, you can go so much deeper into the role and really take much bigger risks 'cause you're not worried about trivial things like that.
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I'm absolutely confident - in fact, I'm optimistic that by focusing on quality and innovation in Medicare - that we can save that program for the long term in a very positive way.
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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
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I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.
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Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
