Poor Quotes · Page 43

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

— Bill Gates

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

— Ann Voskamp

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

— Jessica Barden

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

— George W. Bush

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to…

— George Jones

Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor…

— Jamaal Bowman

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent…

— Desmond Tutu

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my…

— Coco Chanel

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest…

— Albert Einstein

I've always been a rebel and it's got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not,…

— Chuck Mosley

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids…

— Barry Lyga

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet…

— Nellie L. McClung

There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow…

— Michael Elliott

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time…

— Jacob Needleman

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up…

— Ernest Hemingway

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are…

— T. Harv Eker

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and…

— Fred Small

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it…

— Will Rogers

Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper.…

— Rick Riordan

I've always been aghast at the contrast between rich and poor.

— Jean Marsh

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

— Simon Mainwaring

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

— H. Beam Piper

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

— Big James Henderson

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

— Mother Teresa

“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

— Lewis Howes

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

— Jane Gardam

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

— Maude Barlow

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

— Anne Robinson

“if u born poor it is not your mistake,if you die it is your mistake.”

— Kalam

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

— Thomas Otway

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

— Bill Kristol

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

— Frank Field