Dies Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than…

— Phil Ochs

“The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.”

— Thomas Harris

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to…

— Douglas MacArthur

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have…

— Jim Goad

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

— Michael Chabon

“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field for the…

— Michael Arlen

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the…

— Diane Lane

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where…

— Moss Hart

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment.…

— Jonathan Franzen

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad…

— Vicki Baum

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

— Nelson Mandela

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,…

— Paulo Freire

It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into…

— Terry Rossio

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked…

— Scott Simon