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.
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace...
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my du...
Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), ...
And once when we were walking on Bredon Hill, we met a bedraggled and exhausted fox. 'Oh, poor thing,' Jack said. 'What shall we do when the hunt comes up? I can already hear them. Oh, I know -- I have an idea.' He cupped his hands and shouted to the...
