Top 1200 Poor Richard Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

First season of 'Survivor' - Richard Hatch was fascinating.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

We look at the poor shots and ask why. Then we work on stability and balance. We're always trying to get the club in the little bit better position so we hit fewer poor shots.

Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

I'm proud to be associated with the public policies of Richard Nixon.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.

Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless would probably spend it on fast food and cheap beer, not on fruit or education.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Richard Fliehr does not make any money.

If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

But I usually read non-fiction; I love Richard Branson books.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So in what's considered a poor area, you got to look at things. What's going on there? The actual environment is sick, and sickly, and causes illness.

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.