I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ...… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others… People who have good… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, 'Hey stupid, can't you speak English?' Now… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image