Quotes About Poorness

#1. But our world at the end of the twentieth century has so much destruction without Christian artists so emphasizing the minor theme in the total body of their work that they add to the poorness and destruction of our generation.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#2. What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

John Ruskin

#3. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.

Santosh Kalwar

#5. We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Vishwas Chavan

#6. Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything.)

Angela Kiss

#7. Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. "I'm

Brit Bennett

#8. I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness.

Victoria Scott

#9. Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

Beryl Bainbridge

#10. We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.

John Dewey

#12. You don't wear underwear either?"
"Either?"
I look up at him through my lashes
and send him a coy grin. "Either.

Kristen Proby

#13. Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

Frederick Lenz