Poor Quotes - Page 15

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  Natasha Leggero

  Thinking, Interesting, Becoming

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• We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Mortals

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

  Tyler Cowen

  People, Principles, Needs

  "What kind of mandate should “the right” have supported?". marginalrevolution.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

  William Booth

  Jesus, Heart, Army

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• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  Vicente Fox

  Population, Different, Income

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• The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Government, South, South Africa

  "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.

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• During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

  William Julius Wilson

  Hard Times, African American, Groups

  New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

  Dave Checketts

  Sports, Long, Fans

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• My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Believe, Heart, Loss

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Book, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I just love cars; Ive been like that since I was a kid. Its an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

  Birdman

  Kids, Always Trying, Car

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• Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Healing, Long

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.316

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• I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Stress, Believe, Choices

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• Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

  Bobby Keys

  Golf, Play, Sometimes

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• The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Differences, Becoming, Income

  "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

  Christine McVie

  Rich, Ashamed, Enjoy

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• A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, Government, People

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• You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wife, Suits, Naked

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• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Glasses, Self

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Memories, People, Tag

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Self

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• I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

  Margaret George

  Philosophy, Men, Worry

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan

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• Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Suffering, Desire, Fool

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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