Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

I'm confident that it is with the strength of the poor that India will move forward.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.

I'm poor, not homeless.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.