Impoverishing Quotes

#1. All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#2. We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Jeremy Corbyn

#3. Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. ... falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#5. Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Gloria Reuben

#6. Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money ... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

Dale Carnegie

#8. Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

Marya Mannes

#9. We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

Ken Robinson

#10. Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Paulo Coelho

#11. Building is a sweet impoverishing.

George Herbert

#12. The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#13. I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

W.S. Merwin

#14. It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

Douglas Hurd

#15. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Abraham Lincoln

#16. He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. If I do all those things for you
soothe you, center you, give you strength
then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.

J. Kenner

#19. friend's face that something terrible had happened. The fact that he was seeing Jamie Fraser's face at all was evidence enough of that, never mind the look of the man.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say

Ervin Seale

#22. I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Ben Stiller

#23. I don't usually have those 'twin experiences' that people talk about.

Margarita Levieva

#24. Common mistake sales reps make on the call they launch their pitch prematurely.

Timi Nadela

#25. I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

Basil Bunting

#26. The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

William Butler Yeats

#27. Self-care needs to be included in what you should be doing. It is not a privilege. It is a necessity.

Jessica N. Turner

#28. I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

Catherine Keener

#29. And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Anna Akhmatova

#30. We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

Alice Cooper

#31. For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.

Austin Scarlett