Top 1200 Poor Eyesight Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

Being poor gets you thinking quicker.

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

I don't understand how poor people think.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Love is a concept invented by poor people.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and say, "Tell me about the good work that you're doing and introduce me to the poor people who represent the kind of help you give." It serves to streamline the storytelling, but it gives you a lopsided cosmos in which almost every poor person you read about is involved with a NGO helping him. Our understanding of poverty and how people escape from poverty, in any country, is quite distorted.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Our poor kids are very talented.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

Real wealth is feeling sorry for the poor

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

Sex is free fun for poor people.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.