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.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
Holly Golightly: We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs.
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.
