People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.
Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a gr...
Better poor on land than rich at sea.
Better poor with honor than rich with shame.
Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.
For rich and poor alike the womb is equally warm.
Poor or rich, death makes us all equal.
No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.
... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans...
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of peopl...
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor ...
In fifteen hundred years someone will figure out a way to squeeze black juice out of the yellow sand, and that will get everyone very excited. Some people who were rich already will get a lot richer, and some people who were poor will be told that th...
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Even a poor man can receive honors.
I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.
Sane is rich and powerful; Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor put in cages.
