Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was con...

Penn Jillette

We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. ...

Carl Honore

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-...

Maj Sjowall

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectu...

Artur Davis

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go o...

Alison Gopnik

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers ...

Al Sharpton

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to chan...

Love

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less th...

Helene D. Gayle

Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and scienc...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

Willy Wonka: Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. So I think we'll put him in my special taffy-pulling machine. That should do the trick. [to an Oompa Loompa] Willy Wonka: To the taffy-pulling room. You'll find the boy in ...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

Discipline: The Glad Surrender

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close