#poor

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#annual #dear #her #poor #preparing

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bombs #brink #class #guys #instead

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#case #did #expectations #first #had

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#city #condition #does #growth #increase

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#elsewhere #greater #poor #poorer #poverty

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#important #important things #nobody #people #poorly

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#else #homosexual #i #just #knocking

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#am #creature #end #frail #get

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#hunger #hungry #nations #poor #pride

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#foreigner #his #like #man #own