Home / Quotes / Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”

Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Work

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Israelmore Ayivor

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Israelmore Ayivor. more

“Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment.”

Humanity Poverty Communication Bradbury White Whale Green Shadows

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.”

Poverty Ministry Discipleship

Book:The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.”

Freedom Poverty

Book:The Weight of a Feather and other stories

Source: The Weight of a Feather and other stories

“One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on a diet of blood-temperature baked beans and the wild leeks he managed to pull from the side of a disused railway track. It is a misconception that he nurtures, whether consciously or otherwise, through omission.”

Poverty Neil Gaiman Bedsits

Book:Mouth

Source: Mouth

“A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.”

Humor Funny Poverty Humour Admire Endurance Admiration Favour Michael Bassey Johnson Fart Crowd Farting Unpopularity Favouritism

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but— I don’t know, I’ve got bills to not pay, and drinks to make people buy for me.”

Poverty Los Angeles Homelessness

Book:I Can't Feel My Face

Source: I Can't Feel My Face

“Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to be organic and that there are a lot of people out there grateful if they can afford regular living.”

Poverty Organic Food

Book:The Death of Bees

Source: The Death of Bees

“لقمة في بطن جائع أفضل من بناء جامع”

Poverty Syria

Author:مذكرات ثائر

“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?”

Wealth Poor Poverty Rich Imperialism Upper Class Lower Class Marie Antoinette Let Them Eat Cake

Author:M.B. Dallocchio

“You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work!”

Education Poverty College

Author:Damen Lopez

Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

Work

Author

You May Also Like