...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.
Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn...
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans nei...
I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads of history and talked hot and mean about the colored, giving my poor and desperate people a reason to feel superior to somebod...
Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-ed...
Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes to my aid. Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a con...
Jellon Lamb: Forgive me, sir, but I've been stuck here with no one but this sorry sack of Hibernian pig shit for conversation. Poor, poor Dan O'Reilly. Sit, sir. Drink with me. [Charlie cocks his gun and points it to Lamb] Charlie Burns: One more cra...
Richie: I think he's very lonely. Lonelier than he lets on. Maybe lonelier than he even realizes. Ethel: Have you spoken to him about this? Richie: Briefly. And he agreed that... Chas: I'm sorry, maybe I'm a little confused here. What are you suggest...
In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.
When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.