This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I… — Anupam Kher Copy Share Image
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image