Poor Quotes
5043 quotes by 2780 authors
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So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges…
— David Platt
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On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual…
— Charles Dickens
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Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
— CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
— Khushwant Singh
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Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
— Julian Barnes
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The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she…
— Christopher Paolini
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He turned to shut and lock the door, then came close, his gaze touching her features. “I missed you, Holly.†Her heart caught painfully. The…
— Jill Shalvis
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t…
— Frank McCourt
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I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their…
— William Shakespeare
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The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed…
— George Orwell
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Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be. I…
— Cindy Gerard
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There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't…
— Markus Zusak
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In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
— Sigmund Freud
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
— Ann Brashares
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But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
— C.S. Lewis
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He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have…
— Franny Billingsley
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Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the…
— Franny Billingsley
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