"Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer."

-- Margaret Drabble

#Poverty Quotes #Poor Quotes #Scales Quotes

“The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it's like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then five years later they're back in vogue. Or there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you're back again at the place you were.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!”
“Village cricket spread fast through the land.”

Source : "English Social History".
“When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.”
“I enjoyed every minute of it, I traveled all over North America, racing everywhere I could, and I had fun with it. I didn't make a whole lot of money, but if I could do it again today, I'd do it, and I think I'd make it.”
“The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with international partners are very serious and far from comedic.”
“The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.”
“There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (2016). “Melmoth the Wanderer”, p.321, Charles Robert Maturin

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