Genteel Poverty Quotes

#1. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.

Michael Marshall

#2. Originality is going back to origins.

Antonio Gaudi

#3. Tribeca Film Festival Doha will be both an industry festival and an audience festival, not just an event for insiders. Community outreach will be a major part of what we're doing. We'll put filmmakers in touch with local, regional, and international audiences.

Craig Hatkoff

#4. Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

Jean-Baptiste Chautard

#5. I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Nigel Mansell

#6. It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.

Roman Baldorioty De Castro

#7. Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.

Arnold Bennett

#8. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche