P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.”
“Pouč se, narovnej se, zvedni hlavu a jdi dál.”
Source: Křídla vážky
“Pouči me da rastanak
Nije ništa drugo do zakazani
Ponovni sastanak -
Sa odgodom.”
Source: Smiraj duše
“Používám tvoje jméno, Nino, a přidávám k němu jiná jména, podstatná a nepodstatná, přídavná, vlastní a nevlastní, místní a nemístná, a dělám to, abys měla barvu ve tvářích a jas v očích, v každé kapitole tě nalíčím před zrcadlem obrazovky, upravím tě, abys mohla do světa, a potom pro tebe v šatní skříni jazyka vyberu slovesa, která budou nejlépe vyhovovat tvému temperamentu a tvým způsobům. Jsi moje postava, a tak se o tebe starám. Jsi moje figurína, moje loutka, můj maňásek, moje nafukovací panna, která toho sama se sebou má společného tolik — neříkám, zda tak málo, nebo tak moc —, kolik má milostný román, když se to tak vezme, společného s láskou.”
Source: Možnosti milostného románu
“Povero Renzo! – rispose il frate, - se il potente che vuol commettere l’ingiustizia fosse sempre obbligato a dir le sue ragioni, le cose non aderebbero come vanno.”
Source: The Betrothed
“Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.”
“Poverty - the one thing money can't buy”
Source: Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”
“Poverty abolitionists are solutionists, doers, prioritizing plan over critique. Tangible wins over rhetorical ones. Usefulness over purity. And we must organize.”
Source: Poverty, by America
“Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.
Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence." - Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from If I Could Tell You”
“Poverty always brings pain one way or another, mild to severe, today or 30 years later.”
Source: UnBrokable* II: The 2nd 10 Reasons Why People Go Broke Despite Working
“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”
Source: The Man from Beijing
“Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)
“Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.”
Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)”
Source: The God Players: A Legal Thriller
“Poverty and illiteracy can be proven as the most lethal factor for the overall development of any nation. These two are strongly interconnected so to counter one; one must deal with the both.”
“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.”
“Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.”
Source: A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
“Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”
“Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.”
Source: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
“Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities; one’s sentimental and psychological values go out the window.”
Source: La mujer justa
“Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.”
“Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.”
“Poverty and War have no excuse.”
“Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.”
“Poverty and worldly wealth are the sources of spiritual poverty.”
“Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere”
“Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere”
“Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger”
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”
“Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.”
“Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all”
Source: Freedom from the Known
“Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it”
Source: Major Barbara
“Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.”
“Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?”
“Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance”
Source: Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi
“Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.”
“Poverty can be overcome through knowledge and knowledge can be gained through good books and good books can be found only in rich libraries.”
“Poverty can be said to be the by-product of colonisation or lack of mental development.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.”
“Poverty can’t make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.”
“Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.”
“Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.”
“Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.”
“Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.”
“Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)