Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I… — Denis Leary 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
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality,… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a… — Pete Best Copy Share Image
Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
"The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid," you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport,… — Colton Haynes Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In Detroit, at least in my household, you might be poor, but you better be honest. You work for what you get. — Jerome Bettis Copy Share Image
I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party,… — Plato Copy Share Image
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about two years. Went… — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image