Empoverished Quotes & Sayings

know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. — Andrea Dworkin

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — Janis Joplin

Simple people have nothing left to hide,
but themselves.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 30, 2016
Babaji — Petra Hermans

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about — Edward Bloor

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right. — John McPhee

Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing - it is a tiger in lamb's clothing. — Matthias Zdarsky

The second precondition is that the network be plastic, capable of adopting new configurations. — Steven Johnson

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. — Gavin Rossdale

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go to the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about. — Jenny Colgan

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else ... — Miguel De Unamuno

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. — Aristotle.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite. — Bette Midler

I'll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening. — Tom Deaderick

Life is a hard thing that presses us too tightly, forever hurting our souls. Upon feeling those restraints loosen for a moment, one can experience clear-sighted pleasures. — Marcel Proust