Poor And Rich Social Issue Quotes & Sayings

Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored. — Erik Bundy

The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail. — Joe Abercrombie

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts. — Satoshi Tajiri

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.' — Anton Chekhov

People make mistakes; they do the wrong things. Sometimes they're annoying. Sometimes they're awful. (That's true for me, too, by the way.)
So how do you know when it's time to give up? And do you know when to hang in there? I guess you don't really. You just make your choices and hope for the best. — Lisa Papademetriou

Our lives have been depicted as an enclosure in endlessness (parenthesis). As life is brief, we pass on without bringing anything with us, in this manner the genuine importance of life is to offer and to serve humankind. When we result in these present acknowledgments, it provides us a superior viewpoint in life and how to identify with others. This living is demonstrated to bring enormous returns other than the result of individual gain. — Gladys Adevey

Wild winds never last all morning
and fierce rains never last all day. — Lao-Tzu

Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts ... (Act IV, Scene II) — William Shakespeare

This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence, and you could and perhaps should still find what goes on with welfare fraud prosecution in America crazy, even shocking.

Because the issue here isn't the efficacy of the welfare state. This is about fairness. Do we treat people the same way everywhere? How does a poor person end up getting arrested for fraud, and does the state have the same playbook for rich people?

The obvious answer is no, but you have to see the difference up close, at a day-to-day level, to really grasp the breadth of the gap. When you see, up close, where the awesome power of the American criminal justice space station is directed, you will begin scratching your head, no matter what you think of people on welfare. — Matt Taibbi

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. — Shelley Duvall

I breathed. It was the only way to get from any moment to the next. Breathe in, breathe out. — Kiera Cass

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. — John Green

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life ... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales. — Jill Paton Walsh

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it. — Melina Marchetta

It was a kindness that was hard to understand ... and the most selfishness she's ever shown. — Bisco Hatori