Poverty Exists Not Because Quotes & Sayings

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. — Paul Theroux

I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue. — Kate Moss

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend. — Chrisette Michele

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key! — Rumi

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost

Every condition exists," Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum." Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond

You have to fall in love with hanging around words. — John Ciardi

Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more. — Silas House

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend. — Jose Mourinho

That's the thing about lives. We're all so tangled up with one another, but at the same time, we're very much alone. — Brittainy C. Cherry

MR. GEORGE MOTHER MARGARET — Lake Union Publishing

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told ... and have a sense of humor doing it. — Criss Jami

Everybody is so happy, and no one has a thought for you. And this is what happens to me everywhere and always. Everyone has marked out his own little spot on the Earth, his warm stove, his cup of coffee, his wife, his glass of wine in the evening, and is quite content with that;[ ... ]I don't feel at ease anywhere. It is as if I always arrive a second too late, as if all the world had utterly failed to take me into account. — Joseph Von Eichendorff

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. — Friedrich Nietzsche