Top 1200 Poor Eyesight Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

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

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

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

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

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

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

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

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

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

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

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

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

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

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

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

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 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.

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.

Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.

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

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

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

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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

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

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 have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I'm really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That's my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can't - even with surgery.

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

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

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

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.

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

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

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

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.

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.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

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

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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

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 parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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