Destitute People Quotes

#1. Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him ... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

George Grossmith

#3. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Sarah Dessen

#4. Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose?

Danielle Paige

#5. My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

Jimmy Carter

#6. Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

#7. No one lacks voice. Not even the dead. But many lack ears, the ability to hear those stories out of which the most destitute of people are forging their destines, breathing life into bleached bones.

Demetria Martinez

#8. Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Georges St-Pierre

#9. Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Robert G. Thompson

#10. I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Maurice Sendak

#11. The difference between a signature and an autograph is that the second one has higher face value on a plain paper than the first one even on a cheque.

Vikrmn

#12. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

#13. I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Jessie Cave

#14. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

#15. Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#16. I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

Aleksandr Lebed

#17. When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

George A. Romero

#18. Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. I'm more of a short-hair girl; short hair is a lot more low-maintenance than long hair. And when you're in front of camera every day and your hair is being flatironed and blow-dried it's easier to have a weave so you don't damage your own hair.

Nia Long

#20. Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr

#21. What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Chanakya

#22. I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

John Allison

#23. MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. The Congolese are consistently rated as the planet's poorest people, significantly worse off than other destitute Africans. In the decade from 2000, the Congolese were the only nationality whose gross domestic product per capita, a rough measure of average incomes, was less than a dollar a day.

Tom Burgis

#25. Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#26. If the prosperity of megachurches was parallel to the prosperity of the people in the community they were in, there would be less to judge them for. But what is the point of a million-dollar mansion surrounded by shacks? What is the point of a billionaire whose closest friends are destitute? Far

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