Poorness Quotes & Sayings

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness. — Vishwas Chavan

Keep moving onwards! — Lailah Gifty Akita

To wake up each morning is a blessed gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. — Ai Weiwei

Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you' said the wisest of the wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops of oil on the spoon — Paulo Coelho

Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything.) — Angela Kiss

Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come eventually, and summer, and they last for a while, but now, looking back, spring and summer seem too short, as if they were not much more than a couple of days, and even on those days, no matter how lovely the day, it still snows occasionally. — Franz Kafka

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. — Juice Newton

You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird. — Maureen Johnson

Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. "I'm — Brit Bennett

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. — Alexander Pope

Nothing stays forever, nobody does rather. All the things, people will leave you one fine day and you'll be a wanderer in solitude again. You'll moan again silently through the process of decaying. All your richness or poorness
was never really of worth.
When you were born, you were dead, respiring to cease. You're a trader, exchanging everything! — Nupur Walia

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. — Albert Einstein

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. — Matthew Heywood

Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness. — Santosh Kalwar

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city. — Donald Ray Pollock

But our world at the end of the twentieth century has so much destruction without Christian artists so emphasizing the minor theme in the total body of their work that they add to the poorness and destruction of our generation. — Francis A. Schaeffer

It's "I felt bad," not "I felt badly," because "to feel badly" would mean "to grope about ineptly." The verb "felt" - definitely a verb of the senses, though not on Gordon's list - fuses the "bad" to the subject, rather than simply using an adverb to modify itself. — Mary Norris

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation. — Richard Attias

I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness. — Victoria Scott

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. — Henry Rollins

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. — Elizabeth Gaskell

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures. — John Ruskin

Is he immortal do you think? Because I've seen much in my years, and heard rumors of much more, but never of a man or woman who lived forever."
" I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever — Stephen King