V. S. Naipaul Quotes

For Modi, India offers a great opportunity for development with excellent natural and human resources.

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

Africa will thrive.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.

In most parts of our world, the rural community dominates. The numbers of people in rural communities in the Islamic world, plus the difficulty of addressing the problems of development in rural communities, is a central issue.

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”