Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do now? I guess I'll have to get a second job.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Oppression makes a poor country.

Only poor people go to jail.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

Past glories are poor feeding.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

People who give will never be poor.

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.