"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

#Past Quotes #Hands Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.”
“Girls who have a strong belief system are beautiful in a great way.”
“I really tend to write in retrospect.”
“Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.”
“But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic - and in some cases clearly false - statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.”
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”
“Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.”
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”

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