Needs Quote by Dervla Murphy Download Open image “poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.” — Dervla Murphy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Needs Poverty Simplicity
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without… — Secundus the Silent Copy Share Image
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
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