"Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty."

-- Eugene Sue

#Fall Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin
“Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.”
“The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.”
“So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.”
“I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television'; it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.”
“Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?”
“America has always imported history.”
“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?”

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