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Letter "P" » poverty
«There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.»
«Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.»
«Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
confoundedly, disgrace, inconvenient, poverty, to a man
«Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American, American Dream, dreaming, including, million, places, poverty, Somebody else, terrible, The American, thirties, thirty, wide-awake, wide
«Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright»
«The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
poverty-stricken, poverty, rich man, stricken, teeth, toothache, toothaches
«The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, forms, holds, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, poverty
«Poverty is the worst form of violence.»
«The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Loneliness,
Love,
Poverty
| Keywords:
loneliness, poverty, terrible, unloved
«Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.»
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