Wolfgang Sachs Quotes

The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

Wolfgang Sachs

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• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Green
  • Loved
  • Teamwork

• You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Fool

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Women
  • Problem

• Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Values

• Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • America
  • War
  • Today

• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Care
  • Poverty

• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Princess
  • Island
  • Ships

• The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • May
  • Jesus
  • Path

• It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Important
  • Country

• I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Honey
  • Fairy

• There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Energy
  • Differences

• All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Practice

• We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • Rights
  • Dignity

• "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the o­ne religion of the future.'"

  

  William Montgomery Watt
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Vision

• You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Eyes
  • Forever
  • Stand

• What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

  

  Paul Muni
  • Use
  • Agree

• Light and praise, Love and atonement, harmony and peace. Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Love
  • Light
  • Harmony

• The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

  

  Wolfgang Sachs
  • Development
  • Experiments
  • Massive