Poor Quotes
5043 quotes by 2780 authors
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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees,…
— Rick Riordan
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Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could…
— James Dashner
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Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like…
— Rick Riordan
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Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...
— Stephen King
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison,…
— William Booth
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It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative.…
— Jill Shalvis
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No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for…
— Rick Riordan
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We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of…
— Alan Watts
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When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town.…
— Simone Elkeles
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Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
— Tamora Pierce
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
— Walter de La Mare
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We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.
— Kim Harrison
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Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your…
— Kiera Cass
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A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care…
— John Grogan
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Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's…
— Gena Showalter
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