Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget, then we will have a debt crisis. Then everybody gets hurt. You know who gets hurt first and the worst in a debt crisis? The poor, the elderly. That's what we're trying to prevent from happening.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.