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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Quotes by Abraham Kuyper

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Quotes by Abraham A. Ribicoff

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Family Quotes

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Good Quotes

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Quotes by Abdul Qadeer Khan

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Quotes by Abbe Pierre

Life Quotes

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning...

Quotes by Aaron Neville

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Quotes by A. J. Liebling

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

Quotes by Zubin Mehta

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

Quotes by Zong Qinghou

Man Quotes

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a...

Quotes by Zhang Ziyi

The day every poor person in this country has a toilet in his home and his fuel requirements are met, whoever is the PM then shall rule for at least 25 years.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one...

Quotes by Yance Ford

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Me Quotes

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Quotes by William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

Quotes by William Shenstone

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Quotes by William Prescott

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Quotes by William Penn

Money Quotes

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Quotes by William Inge

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Quotes by William Inge

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Quotes by William J. Clinton

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Quotes by William Henry Harrison

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Quotes by William Gilbert

More Quotes

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It...

Quotes by William Ernest Henley

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Quotes by William Cobbett

People Quotes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

Quotes by William Bligh

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Quotes by Willem de Kooning

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.

Quotes by Whitney Tilson

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

Rich Quotes

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Quotes by Wesley Morris

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Quotes by Warren Farrell

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Quotes by Wangari Maathai

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could...

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

Quotes by Walt Mossberg

Think Quotes

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

Quotes by Walker Stapleton

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be,...

Quotes by Wagner Moura

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

Quotes by Wale

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

World Quotes

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

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Quotes by Vladimir Potanin

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Quotes by Vinoba Bhave

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Quotes by Vincent Tan

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

Quotes by Vincent McNabb

You Quotes

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death,...

Quotes by Vikram Patel

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Quotes by Viktor Yanukovych

Now, Rahul Gandhi has offered Rs 72,000 per annum scheme to every poor person in India. It is a miracle scheme. While Modi failed to give Rs 15 lakh he promised to every poor person, Congress will fulfil its promise...

Quotes by Vijayashanti

I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that...

Quotes by Vicente Fox

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Quotes by Vernon Howard

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

Quotes by Vanessa Ferlito

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Quotes by Uta Hagen

If we have poor coaches, that’s a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.

Quotes by Tyrone Mings

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

Quotes by Tyler Cowen

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.

Quotes by Triple H

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Quotes by Trey Songz

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed...

Quotes by Trent Dilfer

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Quotes by Trent Lott

I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I'm living the dream and also escaped the inevitable.

Quotes by Tony Todd

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Quotes by Tony Gilroy

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Quotes by Tony Campolo

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Quotes by Tony Campolo

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Quotes by Tony Campolo

Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.

Quotes by Tony Cardenas

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Quotes by Toni Morrison

The CBO does a great job on budget; they do a relatively poor job of what the coverage consequences of a healthcare plan are. Their ability - anybody's ability - to predict what human behavior is going to be, without...

Quotes by Tom Price

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Quotes by Tom Morello

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

My early interactions with VCs were really, really poor.

Quotes by Tobias Lutke

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

Quotes by Timothy Murphy

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Quotes by Thomas Traherne

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

Quotes by Thomas Peterffy

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Quotes by Thomas Peterffy

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

Quotes by Thomas Middleton

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Quotes by Thomas Gray

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Quotes by Thomas Day

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Quotes by Thomas Beecham

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so...

Quotes by Theodore Schultz

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Quotes by Theodore Schultz

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

Quotes by Theodore Schultz

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

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