James Wolfensohn Quotes

Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.

James Wolfensohn

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Home
  • Go

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Big
  • Ups And Downs
  • Moody

• With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Dad
  • Theatre
  • Saying

• I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Running

• Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Bridge

• If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Man
  • Broken
  • Laugh

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Now
  • Bigger
  • Late

• Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Presence

• I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Work
  • Career
  • Wedding

• If you had to point to anything, it's when you've had as much success as we've had and are so close to winning a Super Bowl, at some stage you have an opportunity to think the next move, even if it's not consistent with all your previous moves, will be the one that gives you the chance to win the Lombardi Trophy.

  

  Jeffrey Lurie
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• Hawkey - Hawkey Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, close friend of Turner - come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Friend

• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Gay

• I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Mother
  • Beliefs
  • Ghosts

• Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.

  

  James Wolfensohn