Famous A7x Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith, who suggested that the "horror of poverty" lay not in hunger but in "obscurity." Poor people suffer the indignity of being ignored. "To be wholly overlooked, and to know it, are intolerable." And if poor people cannot look to themselves, then they must look up to another person, whom they consider a hero. Their identification with heroes provided meaning in life. In a complicated set of discourses, John argued that all men, from the highest to the lowest ranks, depend upon titles to give meaning to their existence. — Edith B. Gelles

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many. — Rory Stewart

The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. — David Amram

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast. — Veruschka Von Lehndorff

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. — George Carlin

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. — George Eliot

Discovering God is the key to discovering purpose — Sunday Adelaja

I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than a friend. Ships passing in broad daylight. Mother has a boyfriend. A homeless, one-armed poet. Father also has a boyfriend. A gay Boy Friday. What does the daughter have? — Haruki Murakami

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy. — Steven Pinker

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession. — Action Bronson