Quotes of: Poor Keyword

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

The Blind Assassin

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

The Beach

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

The Black Tulip

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

Colton Haynes

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people...

Michael Moss

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. P...

Walter Kirn

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the ...

Lynda Resnick

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Anthology of Black Humor

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good. ... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

Azlander: Second Nature

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee?

Hamlet

All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others.

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

How Green Was My Valley

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Romeo and Juliet

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

The Restful Mind