William Cowper Quotes
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.William Cowper
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
Pankaj Mishra -
I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
Brown Campbell -
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
Ferid Murad -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West -
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
Marc Andreesen
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
I've felt ugly and insecure.
Irina Shayk -
You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
H. Rap Brown -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
Cameron Bright
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume -
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz -
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More -
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
Laura Linney -
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright -
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra Modi
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It is natural that one cannot understand deep and hidden things. Those things that are easily understood are rather shallow.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato -
Jack was embarrassed - never hero more,And as he knew not what to say, he swore.
Lord Byron -
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.
George Bernard Shaw -
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
William Cowper