A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything… — Carrie Ann Inaba Copy Share Image
“If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps.… — Matt Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel… — Bernard Jensen Copy Share Image
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as… — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
“You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life.… — Suzanne Falter-Barns Copy Share Image
“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
