If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented.… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I loved Hank Kingsley. He was very real to me. There was just something about that character. I really believed him. I… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz…you… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
