Top 1200 Poor Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

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

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

You've got to gamble on yourself. If you don't, no one else is going to. It's very hard when you're poor to turn down money. When you've got money, it's easy. When you're poor, you need money today. People take advantage of poor people.

I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.