Most Generous Men Are Poor People Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that it is utterly pointless to make anyone a generous offer unless he is a rich man; rich men are the only people who can accept a generous offer. To be poor is simply the peculiar human condition of not being able to take advantage of a generous offer. The essence of being a poor peasant is the inability to avail oneself of the gifts that politicians offer to promise and to be left at the mercy of ideals that only make rich richer and the poor poorer. — Halldor Laxness

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven. — Joshua Chamberlain

Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. — Joanne Harris

William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them. — Geoff Ryman

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness. — Mark Shand

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. — Rowan Williams

But Ludmilla is always at least one step ahead of you. "I like to know that book exists that I will still be able to read ... " she says, sure that existent objects, concrete albeit unknown, must correspond to the strength of her desire. How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist? — Italo Calvino

You have such a huge career ... behind you. — Jeff Ross

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope. — Carissa Kohne

American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them. — Landon Y. Jones

They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them? — Ray Bradbury

That she had seen the magazines we receive from home and that it was very clear to her that black people did not truly admire blackskinned black people like herself, and especially did not admire blackskinned black women. They bleach their faces, she said. They fry their hair. They try to look naked. — Alice Walker

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else. — Lady Gaga