Top 1200 Poor Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

God pity the poor novelist.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

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

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

If your sight is poor, there's very little you can do.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

I have no regrets about being poor.

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

Only poor people go to jail.

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

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

I come from an educated family, but we were poor.

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

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

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.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

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.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

People who give will never be poor.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

In every community there are poor and unemployed people.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Whoever desires is always poor.

The covetous man is always poor.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

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.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

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

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

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.

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.

God has always been hard on the poor.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Tax is for the poor or the stupid people.

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

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.