I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects,… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are… — Gene Sperling Copy Share Image
The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't.… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need.… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I see a person wearing a fur coat, I see not only the coat but the animals who were cruelly abused,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the… — Henry Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether… — Regine Chassagne Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image