There is a poverty of the average human’s life, who is unnoticed by the world. It is the poverty of the commonplace. There is nothing heroic about it; it is the poverty of the common lot, devoid of ecstasy. Jesus was poor in this way. He was no mod...
There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described w...
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Santa: Madam, I took a vow of poverty. And you can't talk about poverty... you have to live it.
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.
The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn. To so quickly slide from the great middle into the underworld of the poor validated our suspicions that perhaps ...
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world...
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues...