Destitute Quotes

79 quotes by 70 authors

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them -… — Alexander Lebed
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know,… — Debi Mazar
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. — Lakhdar Brahimi
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are… — Dorothy Day
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice… — James Freeman Clarke
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they… — Paul Farmer
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the… — Thor Heyerdahl
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. — Francis Bacon
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power… — Leo Tolstoy
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge… — W. Somerset Maugham
Young, gifted, and destitute... — Tennessee Williams
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She… — Muhammad Yunus
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in… — Martin Heidegger
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. — Robert Herrick
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to… — Charlotte Bronte
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You donâ€™t need to worry about me; I have a… — Jon Krakauer
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation,… — Anne Bronte
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute. — Conrad Hilton
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide… — Harriet Tubman

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